P2V Conversion

[kaleemullahBila]

Hi,

i am Planning to move one Physical Server to Virtual. What are the Prerequisites i.e what happened if it doesn't go successful?  which conversion tool shall i prefer?

Please suggest

[Anjani_Kumar]

Here is a nice blog for the best practice for p2v. http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/

Troubleshooting Guide : http://www.vmwareminds.com/troubleshooting-while-doing-physical-to-virtual-conversion-p2v/

Conversion tool should be download from here. : https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter

[kaleemullahBila]

Thanks alot Mr. Anjuani for the post

i am not able to Run the following Bat File Command Prompt just Blinks don't run this Bat File checked even with admin privileges

c:\Temp\P2V\p1-HWPhysical.bat

[Anjani_Kumar]

1.Hope you disabled all hardware related service.

2.Login with the local Administrator Account in the machine.and try to run through admin privilage command prompt. 

By the way which os you are trying to convert. ?

[vervoortjurgen]

i always use vmware convertor for this. here you can connect to the physical server and move it to esxi server or vsphere environment

what physical os is it?

some Os will need a earlier version from vmware convertor like example windows 2000

(P2V Windows 2000 server – vSphere 5.1 | VDS Systems Blog Page)

[kaleemullahBila]

I have done the same, even though i am not able to open Comand line

For testing purpose i am trying to Move Windows 7

[kaleemullahBila]

Thanks for the reply.

I will check n let you kow