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4 Replies Last post: Sep 28, 2009 11:19 AM by Texiwill  

Physical to Physical (P2P) Arena posted: Sep 20, 2009 9:32 AM

Click to view goolasso's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Jun 6, 2008
Hello.

Every time we are involved in a virtualization project we are involved in a few physical to physical migration for some different reasons.

I think the best way to do that is manual migration but often it will be a hard work, also because are involved third part suppliers.

I know that many people use "Symantec BESR Restore Anywhere" to restore to dissimilar hardware.

Have you some other real experiences with some "enterprise" tools?

Re: Physical to Physical (P2P) Arena

1. Sep 20, 2009 2:41 PM in response to: goolasso
Click to view java_cat33's profile Master 1,219 posts since
Aug 29, 2007
Hi - Platespin Migrate does a fantastic job of P2P migrations. Another great product is Storagecraft Shadow Protect. Both of these products can do P2P migrations onto different hardware and inject the required drivers for the target.

Re: Physical to Physical (P2P) Arena

2. Sep 20, 2009 6:29 PM in response to: goolasso
Click to view vm_arch's profile Hot Shot 80 posts since
Jun 18, 2008

I have done over 500 migrations with Platespin - over 100 were P2P and I have only ever had one type of hardware cause a problem (they were really old HP Netservers running WinNT4 server and lotus notes server). Other than that it always worked a treat

But it does cost a bit

Re: Physical to Physical (P2P) Arena

4. Sep 28, 2009 11:19 AM in response to: goolasso
Click to view Texiwill's profile Guru User Moderators vExpert 10,338 posts since
Jan 13, 2004
Hello,

Moved to Virtualization Technology and Industry forum.


Best regards,
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