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Best Practise and Guideline to conevert SBS 2003 to ESX 4.1

HI

Source
Physical SBS 2003 / Proliant ML310G2 with two SCSI disks. 2 GB RAM.
-DC
-Exchange
-SBS SharePoint. The SharePoint is not really used.
-Symantec Ghost Console
-F-Secure (AV) Policy Manager (If needed we can uninstall it)

I want to migrate/convet it to a VMware ESX 4.1.

Destination
Proliant DL380 with SAS disks
Want to have Thin Provisioning

Any hints for Best Practises or Guidelines?
I have just installed the vCenter Server
4 pcs VM / Win servers which are joined to this physical SBS 2003 server.
The vCenterServer runs in on of those VMs
This is our own server in our own domain and we can have a down time. This is the only domain controller

We have a lot of different VMware licenses if needed.

Thanks,

Juha

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

or Version 5.0
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

RimFire007

ASKER

Thanks

I'm reading the instructions through.

"I would use VMware Converter included in vCenter (Import a Server) or Standandalone Converter"

Didn't find Converter or Import a Server from my vCenter. AM I misiing here something?

Rgs, Juha

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Right Click a Host Server, Do you have Import?

Have you installed the vConverter Plugin?

VMware Converter Standalone sometimes does a better job! (try 5.0 or 4.3).

RimFire007

ASKER

No, there is no import.

Haven't installed any plugins. Where should i download the plugin?

Rgs, Juha

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

On the original vCenter installer, vConverter.

RimFire007

ASKER

Great!

Carry on tomorrow.

Rgs, Juha