Migrate diskless systems?

[esxhombre]

Can Converter Enterprise be used to migrate diskless, boot from SAN, Windows 2000 systems?

Any known traps or pitfalls?

[admin · Accepted solution]

As long as the OS on the source machine can see the attached disks when using the hot cloning, it should be able to create a VM and new .vmdk file(s).

The cold clone boot CD may or may not see the disks depending on what drivers are present.

[esxhombre]

Great, thanks for the information. I've since learned that these servers are domain controllers. Does that change the answer? Can hot migrations be done on Windows 2000 domain controllers?

[admin]

Domain controllers can be converted. However, many of the users in this forum advocate that it is more convenient to build a new virtual domain controller and promote that rather than using Converter/p2v.