I have started a P2V of a Physical server to Virtual...Impact on Source server required.

[A25Simon]

As an emergency breakfix... P2V of an existing hysical server has been called for... I have started it using the VMware Converter Standalone version.

my question is: what is the impact on the Live Source server ?? Will it be unavailable at any point in time ???!!??

[arturka]

hi

there is bi impact on source server during migration but depends what have you choose in VMware converter advanced options (power state of source and target server after migration server might be shutdown after migration or not

Artur

[AndreTheGiant]

As written it depends.

But I usually suggest to avoid using a server during the P2V, at least because the data will change and your VM will be out-to-date

[A25Simon]

My P2V was successful but the target server has turned out very slow…. Any ideas guys….

[AndreTheGiant]

You mean that the VM is slow? Check the virtual hardware, remove un-necessary device, vCPU, show all guest devices, remove old device drivers, remove old hardware related utilities.

[A25Simon]

These are the devices… not sure what I can remove and which I should keep…. There are two disks on server.

[AndreTheGiant]

At VMware side you have to remove serial, parallels and USB.

At Windows (or guest OS) side you have to remove all old device drivers and utilities