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heshamsalah
Contributor
Contributor

Mirrored Disks

Is it possible to use VM converter to import a local machine that has its disks mirrored?

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Diego_Mora
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Yes, it's possible if the mirror is hardware level (RAID 1). In fact, converter must see one disk.

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admin
Immortal
Immortal

Hardware-level mirroring through RAID is fine. In some cases, software-level mirroring (e.g. through Windows Server 2003) may cause Converter to fail and the resolution is to dismantle the mirror prior to running Converter.

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theanykey
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

software based = no

hardware based = yes

however, if it's NT4 = any fault tollerance will fail (software or hardware, any raid config)

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