ThrowBack Thursday! – Converting VMs from vSphere 4.1
So this isn’t EXACTLY a throwback post.. More of a recent time machine gig I had. I was working with a customer to migrate VMs from their legacy…
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P2V Tips you already know but might have forgotten
Haven’t P2V’d a server in a while? That’s because your environment is likely 90% virtual and 100% of your new machines are built as Virtual Machines. Completely understandable…
Quest Discontinues vConverter.
This shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone since the whole P2V space is really now just a niche tactical market anyway. I would imagine that MOST…
P2Ving MS-DOS Machines …
Today I got a chance to P2V some DOS machines for a client looking to virtualize some VERY old, seldom used, but important enough to keep accounting data. …
Extending the BARTPE Fix-VMSCSI some more! – Reader Submission
More updates to extend the FIX-VMSCSI plug-in. This new collection supports : SmartArray P410i SCSI Windows XP/2000/2003 Download the latest package of files here. This addition came…
Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.
It’s a pretty solid best practice to create a separate virtual disk or VMDK/VHD for each volume in a virtual machine. The alternative is to create 1 vDisk…
Testing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Recently I was asked how a client could convert a bunch of their ESX Virtual Machines to Hyper-V Virtual Machines for bake-off purposes. Here’s a quick rundown of…
Dusting off PlateSpin’s PowerConvert aka Migrate
I recently had the opportunity to dust off and use PlateSpin’s PowerConvert from my P2V bag of tricks. Since VMware released it’s new VMware Convertor 3, it has…
P2Ving an XP Desktop? Turn off Simple File Sharing
I was recently P2Ving a fresh installation of a desktop computer running XP Professional when I encountered this VMware converter error : Here's How to disable Simple File…