Need to do an analysis of a server before performing a physical to virtual conversion. (PtoV)
Before performing a Physical to Virtual conversion of a server, I would like to know what the best practices are in terms of evaluating whether the server is a good candidate for the conversion.
A list of requirements that need to be met before even considering a conversion from physical to Virtual server. All the servers to be converted are Windows Servers.
Things to consider before doing a conversion, perhaps a step by step outline of the things to check to ensure that an appropriate host is chosen for the conversion.
Also are there certain types of Servers or roles that are not good candidates for conversion.
A list of possible issues when performing the conversion would also be extremely helpful.
Perhaps certain kinds of port that are hard to virtualize or hardware for which there is no virtual equivalent
A list of requirements that need to be met before even considering a conversion from physical to Virtual server. All the servers to be converted are Windows Servers.
Things to consider before doing a conversion, perhaps a step by step outline of the things to check to ensure that an appropriate host is chosen for the conversion.
Also are there certain types of Servers or roles that are not good candidates for conversion.
A list of possible issues when performing the conversion would also be extremely helpful.
Perhaps certain kinds of port that are hard to virtualize or hardware for which there is no virtual equivalent
btaylor188
While I don't have much experience with VM ware, I've put almost every type of windows server and roles into Citrix Xenserver environment, including Exchange and SQL servers. The only role I know of that won't run in a virtual environment is hyper-v, ( you can't run a virtual machine inside of a virtual machine) This also means that you can't use the remoteFX features on a Terminal server.
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Do you have access to Guided Consolidation in VMware vSphere, because it can analyse the servers, and perform a confidence analysis, if the physical servers is a giood candidate for Conversion.