How to P2v greater than 50GB physical Data Drives

[rmgbasker]

Hi ,

I plan to convert one of my physical machine to virtual using vmware converter but this physical box running (C:\ (20GB) and D:\(50GB)..Could you please advice me shall i go for vconverter mode to convert this data disk or taking backup and after create a new lun and assign to esx that we restore the 50GB data backup...Which one is feasible..

because data disk is exceeding more 50GB it's advisble to convert using p2v

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Your post has been moved to the Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum. You should be fine to use Converter for the data partitions. Have you tried a test conversion to see what sort of throughput you will achieve?




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[Troy_Clavell]

50GB is actually a small amount of data for today's standards. As Dave said, VMware Converter will be the most effective way to do this. Also, if you'd like you can resize the drive, but it would actually take longer because you go from a block level to file level conversion.

[rmgbasker]

Thanks Dude's