Live convertion to VM from physical server
Hi Guys
Question
we have a server 2008 R2 Running a IMAP multi domain mail server. (Smarter Mail)
We are planning on Visualizing our environment and we are planning on using Hyper-V
Is it possible to Migrate the Physical server with out disrupting the mail services using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
In other words live migration to a VM from a Physical server
The HV host is a very Beefy server running server 2012 enterprise
any ideas???
Question
we have a server 2008 R2 Running a IMAP multi domain mail server. (Smarter Mail)
We are planning on Visualizing our environment and we are planning on using Hyper-V
Is it possible to Migrate the Physical server with out disrupting the mail services using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
In other words live migration to a VM from a Physical server
The HV host is a very Beefy server running server 2012 enterprise
any ideas???
It will be difficult to Live Migrate any physical server to a virtual server without, the smallest part of disruption, because you will have a small disruption, failing over from physical to virtual. (e.g. 50 seconds).
NETIQ Platespin Migrate
https://www.netiq.com/products/migrate/
can do this, P2V, and then failover at a programmed time.
NETIQ Platespin Migrate
https://www.netiq.com/products/migrate/
can do this, P2V, and then failover at a programmed time.
Unless the software has a replication mechanism of its own (Exchange, AD or some log shipping etc), there would be some disruption.
P2v process is basically a file copy.
BTW what is the size of data?
P2v process is basically a file copy.
BTW what is the size of data?
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@hanccocka
The distruption during the switch to the Virtual from physical is not an issue
We can talk to our clients and arrange a outage for that short time and the mails will get spooled on the Symantec cloud
Do we need to Stop all the mail services during the conversion ??
@ npsingh12
Well Smarter-mail does not have replication capabilities. will it cause a data loss when we take the VM live.
Data loss in the sense emails missing for a long period of time
The server Store mail data using a flat file system and we are talking about 800GB to 1TB of data.
This Server only holds only 30 Odd email domains with around 10 of them highly active during 75% of the day
Any suggestions????
The distruption during the switch to the Virtual from physical is not an issue
We can talk to our clients and arrange a outage for that short time and the mails will get spooled on the Symantec cloud
Do we need to Stop all the mail services during the conversion ??
@ npsingh12
Well Smarter-mail does not have replication capabilities. will it cause a data loss when we take the VM live.
Data loss in the sense emails missing for a long period of time
The server Store mail data using a flat file system and we are talking about 800GB to 1TB of data.
This Server only holds only 30 Odd email domains with around 10 of them highly active during 75% of the day
Any suggestions????
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When I've done mail server p2v the trick to minimal downtime was to put the store on network storage. Install the mail server in the vm, turn off the mail server, point the vm mail server at the same data store, set ip and whatever to match, turn on vm mail server.
I would recommend ALL services are stopped, and set to Manual during conversion.
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As far as I know, there shouldn't be any disruption in the service but I need to double check with someone.
Hold on.
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