Comments for I T U D A http://ituda.com All Virtual and more ... Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:52:55 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by ldhoore http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-164 ldhoore Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:52:55 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-164 Only virtual machines that are running Windows XP or later can be configured during the conversion process. You cannot configure virtual machines that run operating systems other than Windows See page 73 of http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_50_guide.pdf Only virtual machines that are running Windows XP or later can be configured during the conversion process. You cannot configure virtual machines that run operating systems other than Windows

See page 73 of http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_50_guide.pdf

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by safaee http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-163 safaee Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:45:02 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-163 hi. is anyone here help me converting a linux base system. in detail my server has to task to do.1 MRTG 2.Radius i start converting process but i will have error says : cannot reconfigure the destination machine .......... please help. hi.
is anyone here help me converting a linux base system.
in detail my server has to task to do.1 MRTG 2.Radius
i start converting process but i will have error says : cannot reconfigure the destination machine ……….
please help.

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by Prashant http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Prashant Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:47:06 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-61 Thanks for the excellent Tool. Converted Windows 7 and Windows 2003 System to VMWare ESXi instances. One point to note here is that if you are converting from IDE disks, then remember to change the disk from IDE to scsi Thanks for the excellent Tool. Converted Windows 7 and Windows 2003 System to VMWare ESXi instances.

One point to note here is that if you are converting from IDE disks, then remember to change the disk from IDE to scsi

]]> Comment on VMware – Free tools created by VMware by Carlo http://ituda.com/vmware-free-tools-created-by-vmware/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Carlo Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:48:07 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=584#comment-38 Wonderful list! I did not know all of this existed. Thanks Carlo Wonderful list! I did not know all of this existed.
Thanks
Carlo

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by ldhoore http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-34 ldhoore Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:42:27 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-34 Bryan, When you are talking about such a large amount of data, you will need to plan very well. Re-syncing a very large amount of data is not optimal. If I understand it well, you can have an application downtime from 5:30 pm to 7am A few questions: 1. How is your servers disk layout (e.g C: drive = OS, D: drive = program installations, E: drive = data)? 2. What is the size of each disk and how much of each diskspace is used? 3. do you want to resize the disks during the P2V conversion? 4. Are your disk local disks, SAN disks, NAS disks? 5. How many datachanges are there in an average day (in MB) 6. What are your target LUNs: Raw Devices, multiple VMFS LUNs, ... 7. Which ESX version do you run? Bryan,

When you are talking about such a large amount of data, you will need to plan very well. Re-syncing a very large amount of data is not optimal.
If I understand it well, you can have an application downtime from 5:30 pm to 7am

A few questions:
1. How is your servers disk layout (e.g C: drive = OS, D: drive = program installations, E: drive = data)?
2. What is the size of each disk and how much of each diskspace is used?
3. do you want to resize the disks during the P2V conversion?
4. Are your disk local disks, SAN disks, NAS disks?
5. How many datachanges are there in an average day (in MB)
6. What are your target LUNs: Raw Devices, multiple VMFS LUNs, …
7. Which ESX version do you run?

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by Bryan http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Bryan Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:28:35 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-33 I have a production server that is hit from 7am-5pm.  It carries 3.7TB of data with it.  I have run the PtoV once and made sure the server came up correctly.  I now want to know if there is a way to run the PtoV again and sync up the data if the PtoV ends in the middle of the day.  So if it finishes conversion at 1pm, I can't swap servers until 5:30pm.  So I need to find a way to sync the data from 1-5:30.  I know about the sync data on completion option but I will still be left with a few hours of missing data.  I had a colleague mention unchecking the option to "reconfigure the vm after completion".  It takes a few days to get through the process, so any info you can provide will be much appreciated.  Thank you. I have a production server that is hit from 7am-5pm.  It carries 3.7TB of data with it.  I have run the PtoV once and made sure the server came up correctly.  I now want to know if there is a way to run the PtoV again and sync up the data if the PtoV ends in the middle of the day.  So if it finishes conversion at 1pm, I can't swap servers until 5:30pm.  So I need to find a way to sync the data from 1-5:30.  I know about the sync data on completion option but I will still be left with a few hours of missing data.  I had a colleague mention unchecking the option to "reconfigure the vm after completion".  It takes a few days to get through the process, so any info you can provide will be much appreciated.  Thank you.

]]> Comment on VMware Capacity Planner Overview by Andrew Pelt http://ituda.com/vmware-capacity-planner-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Andrew Pelt Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:16:01 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=294#comment-31 Hello, let me say that this article really is great and what I preffered is the way you write, it is really easy to understand and you make your point. Keep it up :) ! Frank d'Amours of <a href="http://www.get-free-dofollow-backlinks.com" rel="nofollow">dofollow backlinks</a> Hello, let me say that this article really is great and what I preffered is the way you write, it is really easy to understand and you make your point. Keep it up :) !

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]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by ldhoore http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-30 ldhoore Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:41:54 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-30 I tested it and it works. it will download a self extracting executable file (.exe). I tested it and it works. it will download a self extracting executable file (.exe).

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by ldhoore http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-29 ldhoore Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:40:05 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-29 I did not test it yet on Win2008, but in principle this should work I did not test it yet on Win2008, but in principle this should work

]]> Comment on VMware P2V Converter Best Practices by Robin http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Robin Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:17:13 +0000 http://ituda.com/?p=212#comment-28 Nice post! but i'm not able to download the scripts, it opens a new blank page but no option to download. Nice post! but i'm not able to download the scripts, it opens a new blank page but no option to download.

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