P2V best practice

[Rohail2004]

I have to P2V two of production servers. My quesiton is can I run the convertor during the business hours and cutover later? I just want to make sure convertor wont reboot the physical box upon completion. thanks.

[jayolsen]

Partly depends on your guest OS and what applications are on the servers. Windows 2000 and NT4 I believe both require a reboot before the conversion when the agent installs. 2003 does not I do not believe. Also, once the conversion is complete any new writes to your physical box will not get synch'd up with your new virtual server. So that could make a difference depending on the server function. But a completed conversion does not reboot a system.

[Gerrit_Lehr · Accepted solution]

No, it will not trigger a reboot of the physical system. Converter installs an Agent remotely and then does the converting using this agent without changing the system in another way.

Kind Regards,

Gerrit Lehr

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