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Best Practice for P2V'ing Proliants? posted: Mar 10, 2008 6:13 AM

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hutchingsp
253 posts since
Jun 21, 2007

I have around half a dozen Proliants, all DL360 G4's that I need to convert to VM's.

When I tested the Converter (that comes with VirtualCenter 2.5) it seems to "just work" and other than tidying up the HP drives/tools/utils via the script on here there seemed to be very little to do.

I just wanted to check a couple of things:

a) Have I missed anything blatantly obvious or is it really that simple?

b) On a couple of VM's it would be nice to be able to carry over IP address info simply because there's a lot assigned to the NICs, is there a simple way to do this?

TIA

Re: Best Practice for P2V'ing Proliants?

1. Mar 10, 2008 6:26 AM in response to: hutchingsp
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vmroyale
1,712 posts since
Jun 15, 2007

On all of the Proliant's I have P2Vd, the biggest thing was to disable all of the HP-specific utilties and services, as you mentioned. After the P2V, uninstall (or use the script) to get that all cleaned up. I have also found that McAfee AV prodcuts seem to "behave" better, if they are disabled as well for the initial startup. Go to Device Manager and make sure you don't have any question marks or other problems. Don't forget View -> Show Hidden Devices in Device Manager.

For the IP address, try this.

TO EXPORT INTERFACE SETTINGS:
netsh interface dump > C:\netshdump.txt

TO IMPORT INTERFACE SETTINGS:
netsh -f C:\netshdump.txt
OR
netsh exec C:\netshdump.txt

Good Luck!

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