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I have a physical server (windows 2008 R2 64 bit) that I want to convert to a VM. I am running ESXi 5.5. &nbsp;I have run some test on test servers converting them from Physical to Virtual using &nbsp;the VM convert tool &nbsp; VMware VCenter converter Standalone 5.5.2. <br />
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My questions is are there any issues or things to watch out for when doing this when converting a Production server. &nbsp;I have no issues with the test servers that I have tried this with.
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I have a physical server (windows 2008 R2 64 bit) that I want to convert to a VM. I am running ESXi 5.5.  I have run some test on test servers converting them from Physical to Virtual using  the VM convert tool   VMware VCenter converter Standalone 5.5.2. 

My questions is are there any issues or things to watch out for when doing this when converting a Production server.  I have no issues with the test servers that I have tried this with.

Physical to Virtual server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.