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Do you have the image running in a virtual server right now? &nbsp;Also is the windows 2003 server still available to convert to vmware server?
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Do you have the image running in a virtual server right now?  Also is the windows 2003 server still available to convert to vmware server?

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The 2003 server is still available. &nbsp;don't have the image running in VM.
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The 2003 server is still available.  don't have the image running in VM.

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have you tried to use the converter tool from vmware to convert to vmware server.....<br />
here is a link to the tool: &nbsp; <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/</a><br />
THis is the easiest way to get a PC or server to vm server. It could take up to 9 hours for a 120 gig drive... i have done it with this tool for esxi and also vmware server...... let me know if that helps.... there are some other ideas we could do if that does not work......You could also create a bootable iso for acronis server and In the vmware server you create a new server and point the cd to boot the iso acronis cd you made and go from there. Does that make sense?<br />
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have you tried to use the converter tool from vmware to convert to vmware server.....
here is a link to the tool:   http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ [http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/]
THis is the easiest way to get a PC or server to vm server. It could take up to 9 hours for a 120 gig drive... i have done it with this tool for esxi and also vmware server...... let me know if that helps.... there are some other ideas we could do if that does not work......You could also create a bootable iso for acronis server and In the vmware server you create a new server and point the cd to boot the iso acronis cd you made and go from there. Does that make sense?
 

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You mean I'm doing a restore from the Acronis image via the bootable CD?
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You mean I'm doing a restore from the Acronis image via the bootable CD?

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I've created an image of my Windows 2003 Server and want to bring it up in VMWare. After converting the archive file to Virtual Disk file, what are the steps to follow in VMWare Server 2?<br />
Thanks in advance.
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I've created an image of my Windows 2003 Server and want to bring it up in VMWare. After converting the archive file to Virtual Disk file, what are the steps to follow in VMWare Server 2?
Thanks in advance.

Converting Acronis Echo Server Image to VMware Server

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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