P2V Linux box for DR

[NSITPS]

Hi

Does anyone know of a good product which will allow you to P2V a linux phyical box into VM format for DR purpose only.

Vizioncore do the P2V DR module with Ranger, howerver this only supports Windows physical servers.

Regards

[jbruelasdgo]

why do not you try VMware Converter 4?

http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/

it is free, and support some Linux distributions

regards

Jose B Ruelas

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[NSITPS]

I was looking for a product which will run automatic P2V backups on a regular basis to provide DR for the physical linux boxes; like vizioncore P2V DR module.

Convertor will not provide this flexibility.

Thanks

[jbruelasdgo]

what about replicating data?

remember that P2V Linux migrations are a combination of science, art and luck

[NSITPS]

Thanks - Looks like I am going to have to look a data replication.

[AndreTheGiant]

There is also a simply way:

• create the VM copy the first time (maybe with Converter 4.0)

• manually boot your VM with no active service and with another IP (for example you can boot with init 1 and manually configure the network with ifconfig and route commands)

• use rsync to do scheduled file sincronization (it can handle only the difference)

• when your reboot the VM it is ready with the right configuration and the last data.

If you Linux box is a DBMS, you have to modify this schema cause you cannot use a rsync on DMBS files that are in use.

Andre