Running multilpe concurrent P2V clones

[kriemer]

For reasons too mundane to include I want to run 3 clones of my physical machine.

Building the clone using VMware Converter went without a hitch. The problem arises when I try to run virtual machines with the same name on my network (error message on opening). Is there anyway to rename the virtual machines?

Regards

[esiebert7625]

Yes you can use Microsoft sysprep to do this, also Sysinternal's NewSID is a great utility to rename a Windows server and change it's SID.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/NewSid.mspx

[VirtualNoitall]

Hello,

If you are using VI3 you can simply clone these and customize them at the same time. Quick and easy.

[kriemer]

Many thanks for the advice