P2V
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Backup Software
VMware vCenter Converter no longer available for download – alternatives
There is a tool that I dare say all VI admins have used at one point or another – VMware Converter. Back in the early days of virtualization, organizations were heavily focused on server consolidation and other initiatives to take…
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Virtualization
Free Tools to Convert VHD to VMDK and Vice Versa
There are many different hypervisors that are used out in various production environments and you may even be using more than one in your environments. Even though hypervisors generally work in very similar ways between the different hypervisor vendors, this…
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Backup Software
Physical Server Backup and P2V with Vembu
There is still many use cases for various organizations to use physical servers in their environments. There may be hardware devices or other applications that require physical hardware to interface with. Performance of other applications may be so bleeding edge…
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Backup Software
Easily P2V Physical Windows Servers to VMs with NAKIVO
There are still businesses out there running physical workloads in their enterprise datacenters. This can be for various reasons. It could be due to some requirement for a phsyical server to plug some sort of interface into or some physical…
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Backup Software
Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM
A few days ago I wrote a post about the Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration which showed the installation and config of the new Beta 2 of the Windows agent. Let’s take a look at a common scenario…
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Virtualization
P2V Linux server network config
I wanted to write up a quick post of a few hurdles I went through with P2V’ing a linux web server that was also running cPanel. The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…
