SBS 2011 to Hyper-V VM

You could P2V it, using Disk2VHD

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

see here for instructions

http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/using-disk2vhd-for-physical-to-virtual-conversions-p2v/

What is P2V?

HI Lee.

The istall did not come with the HP server. We purchased the upgrade and upgraded them from 2008 to 2011.

Can option 1 be good enough just to convert the physical old HP SBS install and turn it into a VHD to add the a Dell server that has the Hyper Visor installed?

Yes, you can do a Disk2Vhd, and create virtual machine, follow the article I posted, and try it.

Will do. Ill keep you posted. Thanks guys

Ok I used Disk2VHD to create a test demo of a Win7 PC I have in the office. I then attached the completed VHD to Hyper-V and it says

"cannot connect to the virtual machine. try to connect again. if the problem presists, contact your system administrator"

Than I tried to attach the VHD to virtual box and it wont boot either. It boot loops.

seems like the VHD is corrupted or not correct?

did you follow the Article, I posted exactly?

This is what I did

1) download and install Disk2VHD on the Win7 Physical machine.
2) Selected all the partitions Disk2VHD found and created the the VHD to an External HDD
3) Took the External HDD with the VHD to my Win8.1 machine with Hyper-V and Virtual Box installed
4) Attached the VHD to Hyper-V and setup all the settings
5) The VHD in setting on the External HDD and the Hyper-V virtual machine settings i set to be on the same folder of the VHD location
5) Turned on the VM and after 45 seconds Hyper-V has a pop up ""cannot connect to the virtual machine. try to connect again. if the problem presists, contact your system administrator""

Can opu create a normal Hyper-V VM, and Power On?

e.g. with blank disk?

there's a hot fix for Hyper-V with AVX not sure if it'll help but just saw this on a new dell server a week ago.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517374

KB Article Number(s): 2517374

I tried creating a new virtual machine from scratch and i got the same error

Im on a win8.1 OS with Hyper-V installed

If you cannot power on, a normal VM, after creation, something is wrong with the Host, CPU, Server etc

The VM should power on at least.

Okay, I suspect your Host computer, may not support Client Hyper-V?

What is the physical computer, that has Windows 8.1 installed?

What is the processor?

I have a macbook pro 2011

bootcamp.

Windows side OS in Windows 8.1 Pro

I can run virtual box and WMware without an issue

Ok I inherited permissions on the C: drive to full control. Have no idea why i didnt have it since I am the admin. I just created a VM from scratch on Hyper-V and now im installing the OS. So its working.

The issue is The Physical PC I used Disk2VHD when I power on the VM the error message is gone but all I see is a black screen with a blinking cursor

Can you check if, the Boot Parititon on the VHD (P2V OS) has is Active?

how can i check it on the created VHD?

I am closing the ticket. Disk2VHD fails. Apparently the new version has an issue that others have encountered so converting to a VM is not the route we can take now. What im going to do is use Acronis Backup & Recovery SBS edition. It has universal restore to dissimilar hardware. So Im going to create a full backup image and load it to the new server. for those who helped, thank you.

I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for IT_Fanatic's comment #a39840340

for the following reason:

Its the only thing thats going to work for us now.

In my FAQ at the end of the Document, it reads:-

31. I've tried all your suggestions, read this FAQ and my P2V still does not work?
Sometimes the FREE VMware vCenter Converter Standalone fails to convert a physical or virtual computer. On these occasions, it's time to try and alternative software package. I can recommend the following software tools.

a). Paragon Virtualization Manager

b). Acronis Backup and Recovery with Universal Restore

c), NetIQ Platespin Migrate

d). Shadow Protect Server Edition

I was starting to type an objection myself, when I got a call.

Totally agree Lee W and Andrew Hancock, went way over Especially Andrew Hancock.

the original question was throughly and rightly answered, in the first 3 replies, and even went above trying to help him trouble shoot.

than his "testing" platform adds 3 more layers of unneeded complexity without mentioning it till the end.

and I mentioned Acronis and storage craft in the 4th post. with restore to other hardware options.

Apologies. My co worker closed the ticket and did not notice the post. This was closed improperly and Acronis suggested by Andrew is the way to go as my co worker informed me DISK2VHD has issues on the version its at.