We are getting ready to migrate our first oracle server, however we are
having trouble. When using converter, it gets to about 95% and fails.
When looking at the physical server we see that it has rebooted and and
come back with and unexpected shutdown error. So rather than continue
on and end up with a possible bad conversion, we are thinking about
rebuilding the server from scratch as a VM, however I'm not an oracle
guy and I have to try and get the oracle guy comfortable with
virtualization. I don't know enough about oracle to even ask the right
questions to our oracle person to help them along in the process.

What I was thinking was build a new VM from scratch. We have mulitple
drives on the physical server so I would mimic that in the new VM with
the same drive letters. After that I was thininking about using
Robocopy to move the data over to the new VM drives. From there I was
thinking the oracle person can then install oracle, and point it the
copied data that is now on the VM. I'm not sure how to move an oracle
DB from one server to another and it sounds like my oracle person does
not know how to either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks