P2V NT4 Server

[CTSTech]

I will need to P2V a Windows NT4 Server soon.  Is cold clone the best way to go?

[rsicilia]

Is it a Domain Controller?

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Rocco Sicilia

http://www.roccosicilia.it

[CTSTech]

Rocco Sicilia wrote:

Is it a Domain Controller?

Yes - I just took a look at the box.  It is a DC / DNS / WINS Server, though the domain won't be used anymore - just a legacy sybase application.  It is running SP5 and has 3 FAT partitions.

[rsicilia]

So, you can convert your server with vCenter Converter 4 because you cannot installa v5 on NT (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_50_guide.pdf).

ps: error corrected 😉

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Rocco Sicilia

http://www.roccosicilia.it

[marcelo_soares]

If it is a domain controller, be careful. Take a look at this: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006996

Also, the converter 5 does not support NT. You need to use 4.0.1: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/converter_standalone_guide401.pdf

Additionally, only SP6+. SP5 not supported neither to run on top of newer ESX.

IMHO, you will suffer a little to have this virtualized...

[CTSTech]

What about the Cold Clone CD or the MOA CD?  Do I need to upgrade the Service Pack for that?

[marcelo_soares]

You can try the cold clone or with an old Converter version (4.0.1 as I have said). Anyway, you will need to upgrade to SP6a at least.

[CTSTech]

I tried running Converter but it failed @ 2%.  Logs are attached.  Can anyone help?

Before I ran converter I updated to SP6a and installed IE6.  Converter 4 would not install - saying I needed Windows 2000 or higher, so I had to install Converter 3.0.3.

I tried running the MOA Cold Clone CD, but it hung.  The Server is a Pentium II with 128 MB of Ram.

[continuum]

If you want to run MOA on a host with only 128 MB RAM you need to use a USB-disk instead of the ramdrive.

But anyway I would suggest you boot into a 32bit Knoppix LiveCD and create a full diskimage with dd a la
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mounted-networkshare/nt4import-flat.vmdk

when you managed to do that post the size of the flat.vmdk in bytes and I will create the descriptorfile vmdk for you.
With that 2 files you then create a NT4 VM from scratch and inject the drivers manually later