Comments on: P2V Hyper-V Migration

By: Bravo

Bravo — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:12:19 +0000

Are there any other suitable solutions (Symantec is also expensive). I was planning to make a backup to an external drive with WBADMIN and perform bare metal restore at Virtual server… We’ve got single Small Business 2008, with plenty of services – PBX Asterisk, Website, Sharepoint, Exhcange, AD+DNS+DHCP. PBX and website are running under Virtual Server 2005. This thing can not even perform a backup! I want to move PBX and website to Hyper-V server 2008 and then move the main server itself…

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:10:46 +0000

In reply to Phil.

Hi Phil

The only reason why I did use the hyper-v p2v wizard, I had no SCVMM running at this time. And the physical server was a very old machine, so I gave Symantec System Recovery a try, which turned out to be a good choice.

I think you gonna have no problems to p2v migration your windows 2008 environment with SCVMM.

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:10:00 +0000

In reply to Phil.

Hi Phil

I think you gonna have no problems to p2v migration your windows 2008 environment with SCVMM.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:09:41 +0000

Hello Thomas
just been looking at one of your slightly older blogs, Is there any reason you didnt use the inbuilt Hyper-V p2v wizard to virtualise the SQL server?
Im looking at creating a MOSS test envionment on 2008r2, virtualising a physical Windows 2008 box/ sql server 2005.
thanks
Phil

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:09:00 +0000