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or you can build a new vm and added it as a DFS Root replica. Let the builtin replcation take place and make sure it is sync'd up and then shutdown the old one.
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or you can build a new vm and added it as a DFS Root replica. Let the builtin replcation take place and make sure it is sync'd up and then shutdown the old one.

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Hi All,<br />
I'm planning on converting a physical file server that is participating in some DFS roots to VMWare (ESXi host) using the VCenter Standalone Converter. Was wondering if anyone has converted a DFS box and how did it go and if there are any gotchas to the process. <br />
Thanks<br />

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Hi All,
I'm planning on converting a physical file server that is participating in some DFS roots to VMWare (ESXi host) using the VCenter Standalone Converter. Was wondering if anyone has converted a DFS box and how did it go and if there are any gotchas to the process. 
Thanks


DFS server migration to VMware

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.

VMware

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).