I have had such good success with vmware convertor 3 (not 4 beta) I just get a good backup, convert it and run it. In all of the multiDC environments I have done this the only problem I ever run into is the time being off by too much.
From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 17:25 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2V SBS aka two DC's Has anyone here P2V'd a couple of DC's? I P2V'd an SBS server in test and it went fine - my concern is how to handle it in production when there's a SBS server AND a 2nd DC involved. At some point I need to make the 2nd DC think that the first DC was just powered off for a bit. Would it work if I: 1) Do an offline P2V (read: the system (ServerA) P2V does a PXE boot into the host Hyper-V machine to get VM'd), 2) Leave physical ServerA off once it's P2V'd 3) Bring up the VM of ServerA? My thinking here is each DC would just think ServerA was powered off for a few hours, does this sound correct? Question 2: If I need to roll back to physical ServerA..ServerB (the 2nd DC) will now have thought it's talked to ServerA since the P2V outage, but effectively ServerA will have suffered a time warp by several hours, right? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
