Tag: P2V

Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.

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 ... Read More

Testing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V

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 ... Read More

Dusting off PlateSpin’s PowerConvert aka Migrate

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 ... Read More

P2Ving an XP Desktop? Turn off Simple File Sharing

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 ... Read More

Post P2V Batch file information to Automate Cleanups 2

Post P2V Batch file information to Automate Cleanups 2

Found another great little VBS script @ VMTN This little script by John Cerroni uses VBS and Application Names to find the uninstall string in ... Read More