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Tag: P2V

VMware vCenter Converter no longer available for download – alternatives
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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…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 11, 2022January 24, 2023
Free Tools to Convert VHD to VMDK and Vice Versa
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…

by Brandon LeeNovember 28, 2019January 11, 2021
Physical Server Backup and P2V with Vembu
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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…

by Brandon LeeOctober 30, 2019December 25, 2023
Easily P2V Physical Windows Servers to VMs with NAKIVO
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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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 15, 2019January 11, 2021
Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM
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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…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 15, 2017January 11, 2021
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
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…

by Brandon LeeJuly 19, 2016March 23, 2024
P2V Linux server network config
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…

by Brandon LeeJune 29, 2016January 11, 2021
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