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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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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 its drive. Does anyone know of (or can document) a…
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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 . Operation: Instantiating VSS server If I use Disk2vhd it throws Volume…
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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 the hv manager do a create new disk then have it…
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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 would very much like to use Windows 7 as my host OS…
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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 faster using block-level cloning from my…
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How to determine the cores and RAM needed when converting a physical server into a VM?

We are running a physical server that is not fully utilized. The task is to move this server to a VM. However, I am not sure how many cores and RAM to allocate to the VM. I know I can scale later, but my boss requires a cost estimate and I need as…
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Virtualize SBS 2003 - P2V vs migrating to new VM

I need to virtualize a SBS 2003 server in my work environment. I need some tips on what people think is the best way to proceed. Background: The SBS 2003 server is the primary DC for the domain and also hosts FTP, RRAS(VPN), DNS, and file shares. …
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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 converter to only bring the one folder over and ignore…
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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 the physical boxes to xen as VM. I Googled it and…
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Windows Server 2008 ADS Physical to VM: Strange Date issue

I have recently Converted a physical Active Directory running Server 2008 to VM. (need to move ADS to 2019 Server) and ADS health check reported some issue, which include license activation. I tied to Activate the windows (existing and also I have a…
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Virtualize SCO 5v6.0.0 P2V

I try to virtualize old SCO server and i Have a little problem with that. When i try to startup VM i see somethink like that: SCO error Physical server: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with six harddisk's ( Combined into raid ) - On this server we have SCO…
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P2V for Windows 7 fails on vmware vCenter

Today I started to convert my physical x64 Windows 7 laptop to using the tool vmware vCenter Standalone converter for my mac book pro. The progress failed at the level of %98. The error is : FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration…
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