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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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How to convert a physical server into a Hyper-V virtual machine

Let me explain my scenario. I have a physical server (Supermicro 6015v-M3) with raid controller set to raid 1 and two disks, with Windows 2012 installed. One of the two drives is faulty. What I am trying to do is convert the physical server to a…
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Dead Linux server - need help and options

I have a Dell PE 1950 with 2 SATA drives in a software RAID1. OS is CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18.x). Starting this afternoon we received HW errors (something on the bus is bad, E171F) and the machine became unresponsive. We hard booted and it came back up for…
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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. Unfortunately, the conversion is rather slow - I get…
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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: Install a clean Xen + Debian Squeeze Dom0 on to…
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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 virtualize on a Hyper-V virtual host running on…
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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 anyone know how I can get my system on to MBR disks.…
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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 on a decent schedule and recently we noticed that…
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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 disk which is bootable (but not booted into!), and…
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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 the laptop and turn this fully encrypted drive…
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Create VM from old HDD containing ubuntu

I used to have a standalone server running Ubuntu Server on a 1TB HDD which is now removed and replaced with an ESXI host OS. What I would like to do is to turn the old HDD with Ubuntu Server on into a vm which is hosted on the same computer it used…
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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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How to convert physical server to Azure VM

I am running Windows 2008 R2 on physical server (Dell Machine). Now I want to convert the physical server to Azure VM. I have tried with disk2vhd utility but I am getting the below error while creating a Azure custom image by using VHD. Error: The…
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Migrating a Microsoft Print Cluster to a single virtual machine

We have two physical servers being used as a clustered print server. The physical servers are EOL and we want to migrate the print services to a single VM. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this? This would be from Windows…
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P2V converting windows server 2008 Failure

I am trying Virtualize my windows 2008 Server , & unfortunately have been running to this error msg 1% after the converter starts. The Error Msg is "Unable to create a VSS Snapshot of the Source Volume 2147754767 (0x8004230f) can any one help?…
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Switching from Virtual Server to Physical Server

In the factory where I work there is an Hp ProLiant ML350 G6 with VmWare installed, only hosting a Windows Server 2000 Virtual machine (4Gb ram and 5GHz max CPU). All our PCs (30-40) connect to some DBs on this machine using a very old VB6…
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