![]() The speed of converting a VM with P2V software can be excruciatingly slow. They all can do a good job, but not necessarily where the job really counts, time. There are many P2V (Physical to Virtual) pieces of software in the wild. For these cases I use a free piece of software, the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client. This is an excellent way to do things if you don’t have access to the entire network infrastructure or your single responsibility is managing Virtual Machines. You can do live and powered down migrations of your Virtual Machines with Physical to Virtual (P2V), and Virtual to Virtual (V2V), with free conversion utilities. ![]() One way to achieve this is with third party tools that will do all the heavy lifting for you. Physical to Virtual – Virtual to Virtual Conversions If you document your environment, walk through each piece of your environment’s settings for both the old and new hyper-visor, you’re going to have a good idea of what needs to change. You know what you want your end result to be, but you don’t know exactly how you’re going to get there. The key to any successful project is planning. ![]() You can do this the hard way by rolling out a new virtual machine with similar specifications and software components, migrating the data, exporting merging registry keys, Active Directory backup and restores, SQL Database backup and restores, File server backup and restores while utilizing Microsoft Distributed File System for a file server migration, IIS Metabase backup and restores, and the list goes on and on and on. In registry editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\flpydiskįind the ‘Start’ key and change the value to 4.There are several ways to convert a Virtual Machine. * To remove the floppy disk drive so it does not show up in the VM: It was reset back to DHCP since the old adapter is gone. * Go to the network settings for the Hyper-V adapter and set all the IP settings. * In the Hyper-V settings for the VM, set the desired automatic start and automatic stop actions. In the properties, change the controller in the drop down from scsi controller to ‘ID Controller 0’ and save it. * In the Hyper-v settings for the VM, find the drive file. * It converted under the scsi controller which does not work for booting for Bios (hyper-v gen 1) machines and the conversion process makes it a gen 1 machine evidently. Thank you StarWind! Now we will plan to do the others we have.įor your info, here are the things I needed to do after the conversion finished: Server was 65 GB (about 17-18 GB free space) and it took about 30 minutes. ![]() I tried it with a Vmware 6.7 to Hyper-V Server 2016 today and it worked great! And pretty fast too. ![]() StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.StarWind Virtual Tape Library Appliance (VTLA).StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). ![]()
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