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Veeam provides Backup and Replication for virtual machines, they do not really have a Physical to Virtual product.<br />
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VMware Converter is a free application, and does it's best.<br />
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You may want to consider using a commercial application such as Platespin Migrate by NetIQ, which can convert some Linux Distributions from Physical to Virtual.<br />
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Which Linux Server distro, do you have ?
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Veeam provides Backup and Replication for virtual machines, they do not really have a Physical to Virtual product.

VMware Converter is a free application, and does it's best.

You may want to consider using a commercial application such as Platespin Migrate by NetIQ, which can convert some Linux Distributions from Physical to Virtual.

Which Linux Server distro, do you have ?

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We are using centos and debian.
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Not listed as supported by Platespin Migrate.
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Not listed as supported by Platespin Migrate.

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There was no correct answer as it appears that it cannot be done, so what next?????
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There was no correct answer as it appears that it cannot be done, so what next?????

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Do you know of a way of replicating a physical linux server to VM ware using Veeam. I have tried it using VMware vcenter converter standalone and it is almost useless.<br />
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Thanks
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Do you know of a way of replicating a physical linux server to VM ware using Veeam. I have tried it using VMware vcenter converter standalone and it is almost useless.

Thanks

Replicate physical Linux server using Veeam

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

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.