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Physical to Virtual Live Physical Machine?
Hello,
This is a quick and simple question. Is it possible to PtoV a live and frequently used Windows 7 computer (which is really being used as a code processing server) without many issues?
I want to get this done and don't want to wait after hours or for it to become free of work loads. So, if it's a non issue, it would be nice to PtoV this server while its being used, especially if the only problem with doing so is that it will take a bit longer.
Thanks for the info.
This is a quick and simple question. Is it possible to PtoV a live and frequently used Windows 7 computer (which is really being used as a code processing server) without many issues?
I want to get this done and don't want to wait after hours or for it to become free of work loads. So, if it's a non issue, it would be nice to PtoV this server while its being used, especially if the only problem with doing so is that it will take a bit longer.
Thanks for the info.
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If your hosts are managed by vCenter Server, in the latest version of vCenter Server/ESXi, you must specify vCenter Server to Convert to and through.
If you have a VMware HA or VMware DRS cluster, vCenter will dictate which host to allocate the converted VM, if no cluster, you can select which host and which datastore.
If you have a VMware HA or VMware DRS cluster, vCenter will dictate which host to allocate the converted VM, if no cluster, you can select which host and which datastore.
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Super, thanks again :)
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One last quick question about one of the steps before I close this off. In the VMware Converter wizard, when you get to the select target step. You have the choice between choosing the host directly, or choosing your vCenter server? I would prefer to choose the vCenter server as when you choose to connect to the host directly you get that managed by vCenter server error (having to disconnect it first and all that jazz).
What I am wondering having not done this before, is if I pick the vCenter server as the PtoV target, does the wizard then render all of the hosts managed by the vCenter server and let me pick one of them and then further the local storage on those hosts (we dont have a SAN)? Your documentation appears to show this, but I just wanted to make double sure and that there are no gotcha's.
Thanks