Not sure if it is the same but when I p2v’d my HP’s in production one thing we found was to uninstall all the HP tools prior to the P2V. The HP tools played havoc on the VM machines. We use the VMWare and not the Hyper V though.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs other drive besides C: I can’t tell you how happy I was when I migrated SBS to a VM! When it came time to do a swing migration to SBS2011 it was nice to make a copy of the VM’s and take them to the lab (to create a clone SBS server) to perfect the swing migration as I was able to snapshot the SBS environment at every step of the way. Today I VM everything, even in scenarios where it just 1 VM on a physical box. I too, have used disk2VHD to P2V servers, but it’s been many years. My latest trick is to use a USB 3.0 dual-bay HDD dock to flip workstations from spinning drives to SSD using the clone feature. Old PC, SSD speed, no need to reinstall anything. Way too easy… From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rene de Haas Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:05 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs other drive besides C: :-) That was my preference as well. I did do that with 2 of their terminal servers actually. I did try that first with disk2vhd and it looked like it was working at first. Then after installing the Hyperv tools things went wrong. Maybe I will have another go at that. Thanks On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Okay now I get what you are trying to do, you are trying to move drive config as part of the restore process. Bare metal backup will want to put itself back on exactly the same configuration as it had before. You are probably going to need something like Storagecraft to rejigger the drive config. Or put it in a virtualized setup (which honestly I'd recommend - SBS 2008 and 2011 work better as virtualized servers IMHO - the virtualized hardware behaves better than real metal) MS wants feedback on patching: http://tinyurl.com/patchingsurvey On 6/9/2015 3:40 PM, Rene de Haas wrote: As for the disk, thanks for the confirmation. I meant the windows server backup. I tried first the whole server, then realized the problem that it wanted 4 disks. Then thought restore the system, but that also didn't work because it wanted to restore drive 3 besides drive 1. Which I can also see when starting to create a backup it will also check that drive. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: Server 2008 or Vista disk will do as well, but it has to be that era. When you say standard windows backup, do you mean you are using the Windows backup console or the wizard in the SBS console to backup the entire server? Which disks does it look like it's trying to recover? Hardware independent restores can also be done with StorageCraft. I've also moved a physical to virtual with the Disk2vhd tool in sysinternals. On 6/9/2015 3:13 PM, Rene de Haas wrote: I use the standard Windows backup. I don't get an errormessage. The backup runs ok. Just if I in the backup enable system recovery it automatically checks 2 disks instead of just c: What brought it up is I want to replace 4 smaller mirrors by 4 600GB drives in Raid 10 config and just have the original drives as partitions on the Raid 10 The problem is when I restore it sees only one drive and complains there aren't enough. So I was thinking first restore system as c:, start up and from there restore other drives to partitions on the big Raid 10. They did have Acronis. Tried that, disk to disk, but it was soooo slow. I cancelled it after about one hour trying to copy a 76G drive with according to the software 11 hours remaining. One other question. Do I need to use the SBS2008 disk for the bare metal restore, of can I make due with just a Windows 2008 disk? Thanks René On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote: Say what? What exact error messages are you getting as that's not so unless of course you have multiple drives and the files are spread around a bit as noted.. What backup program are you using? Native? And you booted with SBS 2008 or Vista media? (you can't use Win7/2008r2 era boot media to boot to find the backup devices) MS wants feedback on patching: http://tinyurl.com/patchingsurvey On 6/9/2015 9:08 AM, Rene de Haas wrote: No no pagefile, bootfiles.are on C: The only thing I saw out of the ordinary so far was a folder ai_recyclebin. That location doesn't seem to be mentioned in the registry though. I also noticed our online backup program has temporary folders there. One for the backup and one for brick level backup. Could that be the cause? Thanks René On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Charles F Sullivan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>>> wrote: Pagefile, boot files (separate partition on Windows 7 and later), any file that is considered part of the System State. Files that are considered part of the System State expanded hugely with Vista and often include even third-party application files. *From:*[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>>] *On Behalf Of *Rene de Haas *Sent:* Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:26 AM *To:* [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs other drive besides C: Hi, Like in the subject. To be able to restore the system it needs another drive besides C: I haven't seen yet why that would be. Googling hasn't given me the right hint yet. Any Ideas? Thanks René Attention: Information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential and or privileged material that is protected under State or Federal law. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken on it is prohibited. If you believe you have received this email in error, please contact the sender, delete this email and destroy all copies. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. 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