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hi Bryant. thanks for swift response. please elaborate a little more about &quot;consider clean build for those features&quot;
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hi Bryant. thanks for swift response. please elaborate a little more about "consider clean build for those features"

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i have a windows 2008 server hosting sql server, file server and its a primary domain controller as well<br />
Total Disk space 400G.<br />
Is vmware free physical to virtual tool best for this? <a href="http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/converter" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/converter</a><br />
We aim to virtualise the server and move it to an existing esx host running esx 5.0
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i have a windows 2008 server hosting sql server, file server and its a primary domain controller as well
Total Disk space 400G.
Is vmware free physical to virtual tool best for this? http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/converter
We aim to virtualise the server and move it to an existing esx host running esx 5.0

p2v windows server 2008 vmware

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.