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P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.

P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.

Most virtualization solutions provide tools for performing the conversion. The tool will capture an image of the physical machine's hard drive(s) in a format suitable for use by the hypervisor.

After conversion, it may be necessary to perform additional steps, such as installing paravirtualized drivers for use with the destination hypervisor.

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Turning a running Linux system into a KVM instance on another machine

I have two physical machines that I wish to virtualize. I can not (physically) plug the hard drives from either machine into the new machine that will act as their VM host, so I think that copying the entire structure of the system over using dd…
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Windows 2012 R2 won't boot after p2v conversion

I used the VMware standalone converter 6.2 to convert a windows 2012 R2 system to a VMware ESXi VM. The conversion reports 100% success and I can see the VM in vCenter. When I start it up though I just get a black screen with a white swirly at the…
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Windows Server 2012 Migration (DNS/AD DS Standard Eval to Essentials OEM) P2V -> Do I need a Secondary Domain Controller during migration?

This is my first post on this exchange (although not my first on stack exchange), so please have patience. I am a 3rd year student intern, and I have been tasked with virtualizing the server systems at the company I work for. I have come a long…
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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 and high-performance computing, mainly running SQL.…
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MS Exchange p2v process

Is that possible to virtualize MS Exchange Server 2007 without stopping it's services? In particular I'm interested in using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client for that purpose.
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Exchange 2003: Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) using vSphere vCenter Converter

Planning on doing an Exchange 2003 physical to virtual migration to a new vSphere 4.1 host. I'm assuming that I will need to stop all the Exchange services prior to doing the conversion and running the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is also on my…
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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 is not an option. I'd like to be able to disable…
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Make a drive from one machine appear as a physical disk in another machine

I want to take a physical disk (or part of a disk) from one machine, call it machine-A, and make it available to another machine, machine-B. But I don't want to map a network drive. I want it to appear to machine-B as a physical drive. Even though…
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Migrating Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from hyper-v to ESXi

I'm trying to migrate a Ubuntu server 18.04 from hyper-v to VMWare VCenter 7.0.2. I found out after the fact that 18.04 is not supported by the VCenter converter 6.2. Is there anyway to successfully migrate this over from hyper-v? I tried running a…
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P2V with rsync :

I am trying to create a vmware virtual machine from a physical one running RedHat. Here are the steps I followed: I create a VM and boot a live-cd (kali). I perform a rsync of the physical host for its / without the proc, sys and dev folders. I…
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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 rather than the production server. I downloaded…
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P2V SBS Windows 2008: Mass Storage Driver issue around SCSI IDE changes - Boot BSOD Error 0x0000007b, 0xc0000034?

Have done tons of reading on Spiceworks & outside on P2Vs, SBS, 2008, DC related threads and made lots of notes on all Pathways & Tools & Prep: (Please see Pg 1,2,3) so you know I've done the homework on all ways. Compiled…
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Disk2vhd : error during copy. The error could not be performed due to an I/O error

I'm trying to convert a fully patched, Windows Server2008 R2 system disk into a VHD by using disk2vhd from Microsoft Sysinternals. Every time, the conversion fails with error during copy. The error could not be performed due to an I/O error,…
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Win2K P2V on XenServer 6.2: VM unable to start

I'm trying to virtualize (P2V) a very old Win2K server (an IBM x345) with related storage: a main C: drive, running on top of a RAID 5 logical-array served by an internal ServeRAID HW controller and related internal HDD); two distinct additional…
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How to convert clonezilla backup image to virtual machine?

I have a 30gB tar.gz disk image of a physical debian machine, created by clonezilla - what's the easiest list of steps to follow to convert it to a virtual machine? Do i have to necessarily make .iso? I ran into trouble making a big .iso like that…
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