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Using P2V Tools In A Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Environment |
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Thursday, 19 April 2007
by Michel Roth
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This article on SearchServerVirtualization by Serdar Yegulalp discusses the use of P2V tools in a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 environment (Pre-SP1): "In principle, P2V migration is not all that different from moving a Windows installation from one physical computer to another. It's the same basic process: you make an image of the original system disk and then use that image to build a new system. What's specifically different is a) the endpoint—where you're delivering the image to—and b) how the drivers and hardware settings in the resulting image need to be changed before the image will be bootable in a virtual machine.
These changes often require a bit of work that are not easy to do by hand, and for that reason there are a number of third-party P2V tools to help you make the migration as seamlessly as possible. In this article I'll talk about the most popular and widely-touted tools, describe their functionality, and talk about the advantages and shortcomings of each."
Read the entire article here.
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