I maintain about 200 servers in an ESX development environment. When I did the P2V, I dropped the databases to a network share, and re-attached them after the conversion.
Klint Jon Harris 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> ~
