asked on VMware Converter of physical SBS 2008 - best practice
Guys,
We're trying to migrate a physical SBS 2008 server to ESXi 5.1 U2.
We've installed VMware-converter-en-5.5.3-
In addition yesterday we've tried to perform the conversion, but after nearly 3 hours it was still stuck on 1% while transferring only 600MB in total out of 360GB.
I would highly appreciate your input on what's the best practice to perform this migration.
Thanks in advance
We're trying to migrate a physical SBS 2008 server to ESXi 5.1 U2.
We've installed VMware-converter-en-5.5.3-
In addition yesterday we've tried to perform the conversion, but after nearly 3 hours it was still stuck on 1% while transferring only 600MB in total out of 360GB.
I would highly appreciate your input on what's the best practice to perform this migration.
Thanks in advance
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Agree with Andrew. As a backup solution, in case there are still issues with the conversion, you could dig up a copy of the VMware converter cold boot 4.1 disc and try converting it when the server is shut down. Its not officially supported by VMware any longer but it does still work, and is compatible with vSphere 5.
or purchase the following application, highly recommended to do this function.
see here
HOW TO: Migrate physical, virtual and cloud based workloads with real-time replication to VMware vSphere (ESXi) using Double-Take MOVE
see here
HOW TO: Migrate physical, virtual and cloud based workloads with real-time replication to VMware vSphere (ESXi) using Double-Take MOVE
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Thanks - worked like a charm