ASP Developer Network - Brought to you by Steve Radich and BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com

ASPDeveloper

ASPDeveloper.Net / VirtualServerFAQ.COM

Make sure you go to our home page for:

* Virtual Server 2005 FAQ
* ASP.Net 2.0 Information
* ASP.Net 2.0 Streaming Tutorials
* ASP.Net 2.0 HTML based Tutorials

Made possible by Business Internet Technology Shop (BitShop)

Virtual Server 2005

Recent Virtual Server 2005 posts

* Permissions to Manage Hyper-V images, but not local Host?
* MS Virtual Server and Malware
* iSCSI and switch high availibility
* creation of virtual PC using hyper v WMI
* How to install Virtual Machine Additions before OS loaded
* Hyper-V Problems
* Max volume size - Cluster readiness
* Increase RAM
* slow performance on VM
* VMM 2008 beta Deployment VMs
* Disappearing VMs
* Info on SOA, TOGAF, Virtualisation, SaaS etc.
* How can I reclaim this space ?
* Can Virtual Manager 2008 Beta control Hyper-v RTM ?
* I can not install WS2008
* Remote ILO can work on virtualised guest ?
* Small business hyper-v layout
* P2V VMM Error 3154
* P2V error in Hyper-V
* User Group Virtualization ESX/Hyper-V comparison and demonstration

Add Solution

Best P2V Option

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 09/02/2008
From: John Garrett
Message:

I am planning to virtualize approximately 9 physical servers into Hyper-V,
and am curious about what peolpe recommend as the best P2V options that they
have worked with. And and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Post Reply | This is Spam! | Mark as Spam

Related Messages

Re: Best P2V Option

Sent: 09/03/2008
From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I've used Acronis, and it works, but I'd suspect it would be a bit slow for
9 machines. I haven't had much time to play with the current beta of SCVMM,
but it is reputed to work for this. If so, that would probably be my first
shot, especially with nine machines to do. I was very impressed with the
first version of SCVMM, and will probably be implementing it here just as
soon as it releases...

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"John Garrett" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

>I am planning to virtualize approximately 9 physical servers into Hyper-V,
> and am curious about what peolpe recommend as the best P2V options that
> they
> have worked with. And and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

Re: Best P2V Option

Sent: 09/03/2008
From: John Garrett
Message:

Thanks Charlie. These do not all need to be done at one time, so I might
look at the Acronis solution.

As for SCVMM, do you know if the current beta release that is available for
download works with the full version of Hyper-V that is now available, or
does it only work for the final RC candidate?

Also, anyone else have any recommendations on what has worked for them?
Thanks again.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I've used Acronis, and it works, but I'd suspect it would be a bit slow for
> 9 machines. I haven't had much time to play with the current beta of SCVMM,
> but it is reputed to work for this. If so, that would probably be my first
> shot, especially with nine machines to do. I was very impressed with the
> first version of SCVMM, and will probably be implementing it here just as
> soon as it releases...
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

Re: Best P2V Option

Sent: 09/03/2008
From: TommyD
Message:

John -
You may want to look at this as well concerning the SCVMM 2008 Beta.....many
of us are still getting the same error and have heard nothing from Microsoft.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3720278&SiteID=17

"John Garrett" wrote:

Show quoted text

> Thanks Charlie. These do not all need to be done at one time, so I might
> look at the Acronis solution.
>
> As for SCVMM, do you know if the current beta release that is available for
> download works with the full version of Hyper-V that is now available, or
> does it only work for the final RC candidate?
>
> Also, anyone else have any recommendations on what has worked for them?
> Thanks again.
>
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
> > I've used Acronis, and it works, but I'd suspect it would be a bit slow for
> > 9 machines. I haven't had much time to play with the current beta of SCVMM,
> > but it is reputed to work for this. If so, that would probably be my first
> > shot, especially with nine machines to do. I was very impressed with the
> > first version of SCVMM, and will probably be implementing it here just as
> > soon as it releases...
> >
> > --
> > Charlie.
> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>

Re: Best P2V Option

Sent: 09/04/2008
From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

It is supposed to work with the RTM version of Hyper-V (there was a separate
download that came out a bit after the first beta/CTP release that was
required, but that covered both the RC and the RTM.). As I said - I honestly
haven't had time to play with it, so at this point, I'm waiting until the
RTM is available, which should be shortly.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"John Garrett" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

> Thanks Charlie. These do not all need to be done at one time, so I might
> look at the Acronis solution.
>
> As for SCVMM, do you know if the current beta release that is available
> for
> download works with the full version of Hyper-V that is now available, or
> does it only work for the final RC candidate?
>
> Also, anyone else have any recommendations on what has worked for them?
> Thanks again.
>
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> I've used Acronis, and it works, but I'd suspect it would be a bit slow
>> for
>> 9 machines. I haven't had much time to play with the current beta of
>> SCVMM,
>> but it is reputed to work for this. If so, that would probably be my
>> first
>> shot, especially with nine machines to do. I was very impressed with the
>> first version of SCVMM, and will probably be implementing it here just as
>> soon as it releases...
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>

Post Reply | This is Spam! | Mark as Spam

Other groups

Virtual PC (Mac)(3592)	Virtual PC(12844)	Virtual PC (French)(496)
Virtual Server 2005(6245)

Our Sponsors

Virtual Server 2005 Info Here!
http://www.aspdeveloper.net

Wiki

Blogs

Articles

Image galleries

File galleries

Forums

Maps

Directories

ASP Developer Network (since 1996) - Brought to you by Steve Radich and BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com
Copyright © 1997-2005 by BitShop, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
No content may be reproduced in any form without written permission from BitShop, Inc.
We will be honored to assist with reproduction rights on our material if you contact us.
We also can provide print articles for your magazine, private training seminars at your site, and conference presentations.
Thank you for visiting. Please bookmark our site if you found it useful!
If you wish to make a donation it will help further the development of these free resources: