Errors after P2V

[sdibias]

So I ran a P2V on one of our servers, once it was complete I shut down the physical servers and powered up the virtual. The first error I got was that there was a duplicate name on the network, then once i configured the vNIC with the same IP address of the physical server I started getting IP conflicts. So much for seamless, I don't think this is normal behaviour, however i cant' get it to stop. Also the NIC is showing up as 10Mbps when it should be 1Gbps. What on earth is going on with this thing? Any help or guidance is really apprectiated...

Steve

[sdibias]

Ok I uninstalled the Network Adapter and resinstalled and it's now at 1Gbps, however I still get duplicate name and IP errors. I went into DNS and manually removed the names from the forward and reverse lookup records, did a zone transfer, unjoined the domain, made sure the computer account was no longer in AD, rejoined the domain and I'm still getting the duplicate name and IP. I remotely shutdown the physical server... Any ideas? It's almost like there are hidden settings on the local machine causing the issue but I can't confirm :9

[java_cat33]

hmmm... that's weird. In regards to the 10mb (although you have fixed it) - installing VMware tools on your VM will give you the 1gb nic (including other drivers such as graphics etc).

If you power down your VM (while the physical is powered off too) - can you ping the box that has duplicate name/IP?

[sdibias]

Good point, I just powered down the VM and i can still ping that name and IP, I suppose the physical may not have shut off and is hung up... Grrr.. I'm at home, probably should not have done this from here but luckily it's a Dev box I'm virtualizing... May need to head into the office in the AM and figure out what went wrong, thanks for your reply

[java_cat33]

OK cool - have you not got any remote access to the box (iLO etc?) so you could power it off?

[Texiwill]

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