p2v on production Exchange server (a physical Dell server)

2010-05-10 Thread Shih, Henry
What do you think? The hardware warranty on our 2003 Exchange server will be expired soon and can't be renewed. The idea is to make a "copy" of the server (perform a p2v) at VMware. In case of Dell server failure, we can restore the information store onto that virtual server (the copy) and put it

RE: p2v on production Exchange server (a physical Dell server)

2010-05-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
age if its left off (which it will have to obviously). You might just want to be proactive and mitigate this now with a migration... From: Shih, Henry [mailto:hms...@ci.livermore.ca.us] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: p2v on production Exchange server (a

RE: p2v on production Exchange server (a physical Dell server)

2010-05-10 Thread Reimer, Mark
asale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 2:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: p2v on production Exchange server (a physical Dell server) I've done it, it's pretty trivial. I did mine manually but there are several utilities to the heavy lifting