If you are going to Hyper-V, then check out SCVMM 2008 when it ships. That will do P2V conversion for Windows Server 2003 boxes. SCVMM 2007 can already do P2V (to Virtual Server 2005) for Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 boxes.
Cheers Ken From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare I guess I should have looked further in the responses as that might be a good way to do things. I wonder if it will work with Hyper-V as well? Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I don't know about that. I would have thought that would only affect the machine AFTER it was done with the conversion, not the conversion. I ended up rebuilding the machine from scratch as a virtual machine which took a lot less time than the conversion process was taking. I was so disgusted with VMware at that point that I made them Virtual Server machines. In the long run that saved me a lot of time when we got our 2008 server with Hyper-V. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I think I recall reading once that conversion can mess with the whitespace in databases (or something like that...). I am curious, as I have a SQL migration coming up. I think I also recall reading that you shouldn't resize any drives that the SQL are on. And possibly doing a backup/restore of the DBs after migration. ________________________________ From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare During my attempts with SQL all SQL services were set to disabled and machine restarted. I also tried doing a cold boot but nothing seemed to help. Same thing with the IISv6 with FTP. I did not try removing all the IP's from these machines as I had enough issues getting everything working together in the first place. Jon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Good note. Anything that is running any services like that should be set to run in Windows Diagnostics Mode via MSCONFIG, or at least manually stop all non-default services. Or, use the Cold Boot CD option in VMware convertor. ________________________________ From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Colidation via VMWare It can't or didn't do all machines. I know I had a lot of issues trying to use it with SQL being on the machine. I also had issues with IISv6/FTP with multiple sites as well. Jon On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Yes there is a P2V tool that VMWare has - it lets you make a P2V image w/out taking the target system offline - it loads a liitle app then takes a snapshot, it's very slick! IIRC it comes with ESX, but I might be mistaken. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - (971)-222-1025 "..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside" - JFK From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server Colidation via VMWare We want to take a closer look at server consolidation using VMWare's ESX products, especially in light of the recent announcement making the product available free. We have several servers on old hardware that would be nearly impossible to rebuild so we're thinking they're ideal candidates for VM's if there's an automated process to migrate P2V. Is such a tool available, and at low-cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _____ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
