How to take Windows 200 Server running SQL 2000 Physical to Hyper-V

Disk2VHD

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

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Before you begin performing P2V conversions, I recommend that you run the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) on the VMM server, the destination hosts, and the source machines.

download here

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100597

see here for further details

Use dynamic Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) to conserve disk space on the destination host.

No need to chkdsk the source disk, because it's virtual and shouldn't have any bad sectors!

You can do offline or online conversions, decide which, what is the server, Domain Controllers, SQL, Exchange do offline or cold.

use the Convert Physical Server Wizard to create a new virtual machine from a physical source computer.

Online conversion does not require a restart of the source computer. VMM uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create an image of the source machine that is consistent on the application level and then creates an analogous virtual machine. The online conversion process consists of five steps:

    Installing the agent on the source computer

    Retrieving hardware configuration

    Imaging

    Fixing up

    Creating the virtual machine

Disk2VHD is a very good tool but it doesn’t work on Windows Server 2000.

I am a Hyper-V guy and cannot help too much with VMware but I think there are better tools that could convert your server in VMware environment. Then, you could easily convert VMDK in VHD disks with other tools. So, I suggest you to look for P2V migration to VMware first.

isnt he converting to Hyper-V?

I want to end up in Hyper-V but I have read from some sources that Windows 2000 cannot be easily converted and that I'd probably have to go into VMWare first. I don't know enough about VMWare to know how to do this.

Would it be easier for me to build a Windows 2000 virtual server in Hyper-V and then use Backup Exec to restore system state etc to the original server? Is that even possible?

I know Windows 2000 doesn't have VSS so a live conversion would be out of the question and I am also trying to minimize downtime.

okay, well if you want to go to VMware.

here's the answer, with free tools.

Download VMware vCenter Converter here

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/4_0

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.x Documentation

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 User Guide

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_43_guide.pdf

For the conversion steps, read fellow Expert Bestway's article.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_3639-VMware-vConverter-P2V-for-Windows-Servers.html

Best Practice Video Guide here

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004588

Now this will create you a Workstation with a VMDK.

then you can use

Convert VMDK to VHD for free using....

StarWind V2V Converter

StarWind Converter is a downloadable V2V conversion tool for virtual machines. You can use it to convert VMDK to VHD files and VHD to VMDK as well as to IMG file, which is a native StarWind format. This is a very simple but useful file conversion tool that will convert virtual hard drive images from VMware's VMDK format into the Microsoft's VHD format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image and will leave it so you can continue to use it.

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter

There are also some URLs here that will help

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverhyperv/thread/ef8c12f7-c45d-442e-9a30-c43cd87df3b3

Ahh yeah! That's what I think I needed. I tried to install Converter 4.3 today on the 2000 server and it would not install. I could not find the older versions and wasn't sure which to use. This should do the trick!

Thanks for the help!