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Hello,
Probably a simple question but I am look to a suggestion on how to proceed. I am going to convert a old physical server to a virtual and I am going to use the Sysinternals app - disktovhd. My question is it best practice to tell the app to convert all the physical drives into one vhdx file or should I convert each drive independently? What are your expert thoughts?
Thanks,
-Mike
Probably a simple question but I am look to a suggestion on how to proceed. I am going to convert a old physical server to a virtual and I am going to use the Sysinternals app - disktovhd. My question is it best practice to tell the app to convert all the physical drives into one vhdx file or should I convert each drive independently? What are your expert thoughts?
Thanks,
-Mike
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That's what I'm thinking for those exact reasons. Just wanted to hear what others thought.
Always use Volumes, one volume per virutal disk, partitions are legacy and not needed any more!
Since we broke the 32MB boundary, after MS DOS 4.01!
Since we broke the 32MB boundary, after MS DOS 4.01!
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Thanks for the help!
not a problem
You shouldn't be using Disk2VHD to convert to VM. While it USUALLY works, it is NOT supported and it's always best to leave your systems in a supported state if at all possible. Instead you should be using the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497
As he said old physical server, if older than 2008, it will not be supported!
otherwise feel free to visit and read my EE Articles, step by step tutorials, with screenshots of how to use MVMC
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
otherwise feel free to visit and read my EE Articles, step by step tutorials, with screenshots of how to use MVMC
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
ASKER
It is actually a Server 2008 SBS server but the tool that Lee W provided, isn't that just to convert VMware to HyperV hosts not physicals?
ASKER
Actually looking at this I didn't even know this tool existed.
It converts physical to virtual....for Hyper-V - have a look at my articles
(not supported for 2008 SBS it may give you issues!)
(and if you SBS is OEM, you'll have other Activation issues!)
(not supported for 2008 SBS it may give you issues!)
(and if you SBS is OEM, you'll have other Activation issues!)
ASKER
Ok good to know, I will stick with the disk to vhd method. But will keep this in the back of my mind for the future.