On 13 Nov 2009 at 9:18, John Aldrich wrote:
> I´m thinking of trying to do a P2V on one of our DCs for D/R purposes. If
> I get the "cheap" version of VMWare, can I do that, or do I need to get the
> "enterprise" class of VMWare. Any other virtualization software that would
> work (well) and not be super-expensive to P2V our Win2K3 DC?
Has anyone tried the new SysInternals Disk2Vhd? Current version is 1.3,
released 10 days ago:
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Disk2vhd
"Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft´s
Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in
Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The
difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that
you can run Disk2vhd on a system that´s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows´
Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent
point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a
conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes,
even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on
a disk different than ones being converted)."
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More here with links:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
Anyone know if VMware or VirtualBox can use these VHDs directly?
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