All,
In a test environment, I am using vCenter Converter Standalone v6.0 to generate a procedure to convert Windows 2003 Servers to VMs. My goal is to minimize my customer’s downtime.
The User Guide list an option of “Stop Services Running on the Source Machine” before Converter Standalone synchronizes the data between the source and destination machine. While the services on the Source are synchronized with the Destination, this is an outage or downtime. Is there a way I can find exact time synchronization started and ended? I am trying to estimate or measure this downtime. This will allow me to tell the customer “When we converted Windows 2003 Server XYZ in the lab, it was offline ABC minutes.”
T.J.
use a batch
time >> p2v.log
net stop serviceX
net stop serviceY
now use Converter final sync
net start serviceX
net start serviceY
time >> p2v.log
Continuum,
Thanks for the tip!
T.J.