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Trouble P2Ving OpenBSD 4.0 to VMWare
I've been tasked with migrating a physical OpenBSD 4.0 boxes to our VMWare ESXi farm. I used VMWare's Converter 4.1 CD to perform a cold migration which completed successfully. Prior to the first boot ...
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How to perform a P2V conversion of a Windows Server 2008 R2 EFI system?
As discussed elsewhere, Windows Server 2008/R2 will automatically use the EFI boot loader when installed on EFI systems, and will also automatically use the GPT partitioning scheme on such systems. ...
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SCVMM P2V conversion slow
I am trying to run some P2V conversions using SCVMM 2012 Release Candidate. The source machines are Windows Server 2008 SP2 hosts in a local network. The destination is a Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1. ...
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The proper term for Hosting a P2V image
I have a legacy system that has been converted P2V style to a virtual machine image. What is the proper term for a hosting solution that will use the image I have created?
For some reason I am ...
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How do I get VMware Converter to be selective with data?
Just testing some virtualization. Just P2Ving an Exchange server, we want to get the system drive (C:) and the data which lives on another drive (D:) with some other stuff. How do I get the ...
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Physical to Virtual Xen on Debian Squeeze
I'm trying to migrate various services from a physical Debian Squeeze box to a number of para-virtualised Xen machines. This is my first venture into Xen, so I'm planning on doing this step by step:
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Post P2V Remote Destkop
I recently performed a P2V on an old OEM XP installation.
This required running an in place install to convert from an OEM to a VLK.
On completion I was unable to connect to remote desktop. netstat ...
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P2V imaging bandwidth utilization when SCVMM and the vhost are on different remote networks
We have a remote location that is connected to our central infrastructure via a 2.4 Mbps TLS connection. There is a Windows Server 2003 SP1 domain controller at that location that we would like to ...
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vCenter Converter 4.3 GPT disks or Converting from GTP to MBR
I have a physical 2008 R2 server with a GPT OS volume. I am trying to get the server converted to ESXi.
I understand that vCenter Converter will not convert/detect GPT Disks.
The question is, does ...
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P2V From Ghost Image (.gho) Without Original Hardware
Is there any realistic way to convert a WinXP Pro system to VMWare or VirtualBox (p2v) without the original systems hardware?
I have a ghost image (it's a .gho, unfortunately not .sv2i) of the ...
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How to migrate a Windows Server 2003 physical server to Xen VM
We have some 10 physical servers running Windows Server 2003. Now we have bought a new xen server.
I have added Windows Server 2008 R2 as host as a guest VM in xen host. Now we are planning to move ...
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v2v of RHEL5 box - issues with retaining MAC address
For the last week we have been troubleshooting a customer's Red Hat Virtual Machine running on ESXi. We've been using Veeam to try to create a replica off-site and have been having getting it to work ...
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Moving a Server 2008 physical server to a virtual environment: How, what, and licensing [closed]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I have a location w/ three servers:
Server 1: SBS2003, running Exchange, file sharing, DNS, DHCP for domain1 and ...
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Converting a physical Windows 98 machine to a Virtual machine
I need to convert a physical Windows 98 laptop to a virtual machine. I need to do this because I need to migrate an old application which still is used, and cannot run natively on Windows 7.
Any ...
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what are VMware P2V dynamic disk best practices?
We are trying to figure out the best way to do a P2V on one of our main file servers (windows server 2003). Currently the server is physical with an MD1000 hard drive array attached through scsi, we ...
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P2V successful with local drives but fails with SAN storage
I have server with local drives and about 500GB LUN on some SAN storage. We recently attempted to P2V this server on to ESX but it would keep failing at 1% if the SAN storage was included but it would ...
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Is it possible somehow to run old red hat 8.0 32bit inside debian 4.0 64bit (virtualization)?
So I've got this disk image file of a failing server that I'd like to run inside much newer box. Since I cannot dedicate this new machine I'm thinking virtualization. Is it possible?
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Xen P2V for large physical hosts with much free space
I need to P2V a rhel5 machine to xen under rhel5. I know I can use dd if=/dev/sda then using virt-install --import on the host, but the downside of this is the original machine has 80% free space on ...
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Windows 7 no longer genuine after P2V migration
A standard procedure when someone receives a computer upgrade for our company is to do a P2V copy of their old one, in case we miss something important on their new machine.
This has worked ...
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How to create Virtual Machine from live system?
I have a live system that I need to reinstall but also want to have a backup in a form of a virtual machine that will allow me to turn it on and have a look at some old files/configuration.
What are ...
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vmware conversion linux physical machine
I have a linux box at www.linode.com
I am wondering if I can backup the linux box with rsync and then convert it into a vmware machine using vmware converter? could something like rdiff also be used ...
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How to stop windows file shares during migration?
I'm getting ready to migrate a physical file server to our VM environment using VMware standalone converter. This file server has over 300 shares on it, so deleting all the shares and recreating them ...
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P2V Server 2008R2 with vmware converter 4.3.0 No source volumes
I'm trying to P2V a Windows Server 2008R2 to vmware vsphere 4.1 using Vmware vCenter Converter standalone 4.3.
Source Box
Windows Server 2008R2
24GB ram
Dual Quad-Cores
1 Raid 5 drive 680 GB
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How to convert (p2v) a mounted physical drive with or for VMWare Workstation or vCenter Converter?
Several posts (like this one) seem to indicate that if you have a physical hard drive, you can "just" connect it with VMWare and it will be converted in a VMWare virtual machine.
I have a physical ...
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Can I safely reduce the number of processors on a VM?
I have a number of Virtual Machines that were created from physical servers. Some of these have (in my opinion) an inappropriate number of processors - for example, we have a web application, ...
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Windows x64 2008 P2V? Has anybody had any success?
If I use VMware converter it throws
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered
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Operation:
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Need clear steps on how to convert a Windows 2000 Server to a XenServer VM
The source system is not local. The target host running XenServer is not local.
The source system is running Windows 2000 Server SP4 and has 1 disk split into 6 partitions, all NTFS:
C: 6 GB (boot)
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How to best convert a fully encrypted drive into a Virtual Machine?
I have a Windows XP laptop that uses GuardianEdge's Encryption Plus to fully encrypt the drive from bootup. What I would like to do is install a much larger (unencrypted) hard drive with Windows 7 on ...
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Converting an ancient RH8 system to VMware ESXi
I am curious to know what options I have to convert a very old RedHat8 machine to a virtual one on ESXi.
Looking at VMware Converter it seems there's an option to login to the RH8 using SSH, and ...
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P2v options within a hyper-v environment
I have a server that san boots that I want to p2v. I have many options disk2vhd, scvmm etc but I was thinking about cloning the lun (flexclone, netapp) presenting it to my hyper-v r2 server. Within ...
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Simple P2V help from Linux to Windows
I have two OS's installed on different drives in my PC. One linux (Centos 5.4) and one windows 7. Its getting tiresome to constantly have to stop and restart the PC when I want to use either OS.
I ...
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VMware Converter: Can one skip empty space in block-level cloning mode?
Many people recommend block-level cloning over file-level cloning - besides various reasons - mainly because of its superior speed advantage. And true: Data transfer rates are about 50-75% percent ...
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How to convert a Win2003 server to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine?
What is the easiest way to convert a Win2003 server to a Hyper-V Virtual machine?
Ideally, I'd like to use a backup tool to create an image across the network.
What is the best way to do this?
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Hyper-V P2V Virtual Machine Bus driver
Did my first P2V experiment with SCVMM R2 - Vista 32 (Dell Precision 490) to Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008. I'm having issues with "integration Services" and "virtual machine bus" driver.
When I ...
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P2V solution for moving live Debian Linux server to Virtual?
I have a two live Debian linux servers that I would like to move to virtual just for testing usage. It seems that there are many solutions to do this, but I am looking for something that is free, and ...
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VMWare Converter - Remote Linux Install P2V
I am trying to get what I thought was an easy process working.
Here is my situation. I have a remote linux server (running Debian) that I would like to turn into a VM so that I can do testing on it ...
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SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process?
SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process?
Thanks
P.S. Destination is Hyper-V R2 Server.
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What is the best way to move 20+ databases to a new database server? SQL 2005
Current database server: SQL Server 2005 - Windows Server 2003
New destination database server: SQL Server 2005 - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise - VM Ware image
Current database server has 20+ ...
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Physical to Virtual Conversion for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
I have a physical Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition server that I would like to convert into a virtual machine on my Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Server. Has anyone had any luck creating a Hypver V VHD ...
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P2V — choosing the right servers, baselining
first I'd like to say I'm relatively new to this site. Wow.. This is AWESOME!
My very first question pertains to virtualization. We are a trading firm that relies heavily on low-latency networking ...
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Creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox from a physical one
Is there any way to create a virtual machine that you can use in VirtualBox from a physical installation that you have? For instance, if I have Windows XP installed on a physical computer and want to ...
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Will VMWare Converter P2V a non-ACPI 2000 server?
SCVMM is unable to handle this conversion - just tells me flat out that my Proliant 3000 (yes, go ahead and laugh) isn't a P2V option unless I upgrade it to 2003 server for an online conversion.
Just ...
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inaccessible_boot_device after p2v Windows 2000 Pro SP4 to Workstation 6.5
I am using the latest VMware Converter Standalone to p2v a physical Windows 2000 Professional SP4 PC. The PC is a standard Pentium with IDE disk from circa 2001. The disk is 20GB partitioned logically ...
