Post P2V newb Question

[one3cap]

I have been doing plan consolidation or hot P2V's lately successfully. Now after I am done what is the recommended? I see in device manager on my windows server there is ACPI multiprocessor because the physcial systems had dual procs. I also notice that my disk is bus logic and I do see LSI logic. Also there are USB ports that carry over to the vm's

These new vm's are one way procs..... do i need to change device manger to uniprocessor. Should I change my disk from bus logic to lsi logic? Should I remove the USB ports?

Any common practice or recommended post P2V task would be helpful. I just want to do it right to make sure my vm's are performing the best they can.

[Rockapot]

Have a look at this link, and the site in general. It has loads of usefull resources http://vmware-land.com/Converter.html

Carl

[khughes]

There are some things you should clean up, but snapshot the server before you do it incase you remove anything that is critical to the box.

If you're moving from a physical 2 cpu box to a VM that has only 1vCPU then yes you'll need to change the HAL to uni-processor

USB isn't really supported (outside of a USB over IP) so you can remove all the USB compents

If you show hidden devices, remove the old scsi controllers

We have 2003 boxes running on BusLogic and LSI, I have heard that LSI is supposed to be faster for win2003 but changing the controller can render the VM useless sometimes, so definately make sure you have a backup of the server and/or snapshot it before you make that type of change.

• Kyle

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

This KB may be helpful as well http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004588

[atbnet]

Here is how to show the hidden devices and remove after P2V.

Andy, VMware Certified Professional (VCP),

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