ESXi clone VM

esxi_clone_vm.sh

# Simple script to run on ESXi host to clone a VM
# VM must first be shutdown
# SOURCE/DEST dir must be absolute paths
# RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP is a sed arg
#
# ./clone_vm.sh /vmfs/volumes/store1/vm_source /vmfs/volumes/store1/vm_dest s/vm_source/vm_dest/g
#
# Next to have clone a VM, find the vmx file from ESXi storage explorer,
# right click on it
# and select "Register VM"

SOURCE_DIR=${1}
DEST_DIR=${2}
RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP=${3}

echo "[+] Creating new VM directory << ${DEST_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${DEST_DIR}"

echo "[+] Copying original vmdk and vmx"
cd ${SOURCE_DIR}

for i in *.vmdk; do
  cp $i "${DEST_DIR}/$i";
done

for i in *.vmx; do
  cp $i "${DEST_DIR}/$i";
done


echo "[+] Renaming copied VM << ${RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP}"
cd ${DEST_DIR}

find . -iname *.vmx -exec sed -i ${RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP} {} +;
for i in *.vmdk; do
   if ! echo $i | grep "flat"; then
     sed -i ${RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP} $i;
   fi
done

for i in *; do
  mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed "${RENAME_VM_NAME_REGXP}"`";
done