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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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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 from there it will convert to the ESXi-server. That…
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Smooth move physical Ubuntu 16.05 LTS into HyperV Core 2019 - best way?

I have an old physical box with Ubuntu 16.05, and disks are about to die (md mirror is there, and disks itself are really old), and I need to copy it over to HyperV 2019 Core host as a VM. I have night time only to do the move. All I can imagine is…
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Moving DC from physical to virtual

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am looking for your opinion or advice on the subject. We have a physical server that is our DC, running AD, DNS, DHCP, and is also the file server. The file server alone takes up 1TB of space. This server…
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Physical to Virtual of RD Server on the same server

I need to Physical to Virtual our Remote Desktop Server (Server 2008 R2), install the HyperV role on the Physical server and then eventually have the converted RD VM back running on the Physical Server. I have read numerous threads on similar topics…
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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 install Integration Services it claims to install…
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P2V with a single-server domain controller

I have a small domain in my office (7 PCs) with a single DC installed physically, on a desktop running Windows Server 2012R2. All the components in the domain have static IPs - both the DC and the PCs. I want to install a hypervisor OS on the…
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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 will be able to create a VM of the server while…
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P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversion for Veritas Cluster

We are having situation where we have 5 nodes app server in a cluster using Veritas Cluster. The Operating System are RHEL 6.6 and all are physical server (blade server) We want to migrate all these 5 nodes app server to new data center, which is…
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Failed to read VM '[Empty Name]' OVF, it may be corrupted

When importing a VM from virt-p2v into rhev/ovirt, I am greeted with a Failed to read VM '[Empty Name]' OVF, it may be corrupted when I visit the VM import tab. The engine.log gives this unhelpful descriptor: Error parsing OVF due to 2. The virt-p2v…
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How to P2V a RAIDed IBM Netfinity 7100 W2000 server

I have a legacy machine from IBM (A Netfinity 7100) running a Windows 2000 SP4 server OS. We are trying to move it to a virtual environment (KVM under Linux) to decommission this old, costly hardware. We have tried everything we know so far with no…
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Windows Sever 2000 machine with striped scsi disk to VHD

Currently have a lot of servers running legacy applications that only work with W2k running on very old hardware that needs to be replaced. The plan is to convert each current machine into a VHD and then import the VHD into W2k8 server using…
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Networking Issues after vmware p 2 v

I recently migrated a windows 2003 physical machine to virtual, I've installed vm tools, and reconfigured the nic to use the vmxnet 2 adapter, and changed that to the E1000 nic as a troubleshooting step but I am getting the following error : the…
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Migrating SQL Server 2000 from Physical to Virtual

My team will be tasked with a Physical-to-Virtual migration of SQL Server 2000. The main requirement will be: Minimization of downtime and minimization of impact on operation. The action plan is as follows: Create a new VM (on Hyper-V) running…
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Is it fair to compare a 2XL AWS instance to a similar setup on a rack server?

I'm trying to create an extremely basic model of what a setup in Amazon Web Services might look like translated over to an on-premises cloud. I'm aware that Amazon is quite SAN-reliant, and pretty complex, but please bear with me on this simple…
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Can't boot VM after P2V or ghost - Linux 2.6

I got this old machine that runs on a p2 400 and a Linux Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.8 and since it has modified binaries due to internal undocumented changes in the code, migrating off manually isn't an option, so I was trying to P2V this box with…
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