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4 Replies Last post: Oct 9, 2009 12:28 PM by pearlyshells  

Converting Physical VirtualCenter Server to VM for testing posted: Oct 9, 2009 7:04 AM

Click to view pearlyshells's profile Expert 562 posts since
Mar 3, 2006
We are giving thought to going vSphere and vCenter; however, we don't have a testlab to perform testing. So, I'm thinking that I could further our confidence testing on vSphere/vCenter by performing a Copy Conversion of our Production VirtualCenter2.5 (which is a physical server) to a VM and then performing tests on the VM. If all goes well, then we can do the upgrade on VirtualCenter to vCenter. Seems like a good idea. Any problems with that idea?
Click to view weinstein5's profile Guru 6,331 posts since
Nov 19, 2005
No problems doing that - the thing to be sure you do is copying the vcenter database - because this where all information about your vcenter environment is stored -

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