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Virtualize Server physical to virtual

I'm having issues migrating a Physical Windows Server 2012R2. It has the normal system partition, the operating system on C:\ and data on D:\

I'm using the Microsoft Dish2VHD and have never had any issues doing this. But for some reason, it is not working on this server.
I've tried the combinations with and without .vhdx and the Use Volume ShadowCopy selection as well.
The tool makes the vhdx, but when I create the virtual server, it will not boot up. I either get an OS not found or just a blinking cursor.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Microsoft has now released a free tool, to do this in a supported procedure now called Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.1

I would recommend you use the new free tool, which has support, Disk2VHD, is rather old fashioned and legacy.

Please see my EE Articles, step by step tutorials with screenshots.

HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE to Hyper-V - Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.1

HOW TO: Convert a physical server or virtual server (P2V/V2V) to Microsoft Hyper-V using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.1

Stacy A

ASKER

Thanks for the help. Following your article I did run into an issue:

'ErrorMessage' = 'There are blocking issues for the physical-to-virtual conversion: There is no BCD boot device found in the source machine, noticing that conversion of an EFI boot machine is currently not supported.'

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

So are you trying to P2V and EFI Boot physical server ?

Stacy A

ASKER

No, I am just trying to P2V

David Johnson, CD

You don't understand the question.

or if you run diskpart is the drive GPT? if you look you will see that my disk 2 has an * in the gpt column

it the drive is gpt then it is an EFI boot system.

Pavel Nagaev

When I had the same task some years ago I tried a lot of different utils, but no one from them can correctly made P2V.

Only Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager( VMM) helped me with P2V without problems. I converted about 20 servers.

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Stacy A

ASKER

The other users comments were helpful, but what the workaround I found was the actual fix