Are there problems in the creation of a virtual machine in VMware Workstation or Server and then move it to ESXi?
Hello
I intend to pass our mailserver's current installation of Windows Server 2003 running on native hardware in a Windows Server 2008 running in a virtual machine on ESXi.
This is the same machine as we will reuse so I would prefer to be able to create the virtual machine on a different computer and test it before wiping Windows and install ESXi. Are there problems with the creation of the virtual machine in VMware Server and then migrate to ESXi using VMware Converter? I won't if the result is not a 'perfect' virtual machine that performs as well as if it had been created on ESXi from the beginning.
All our other VMs were created on ESXi from the beginning.
Kind regards
René Frej Nielsen
If you are not sure, you can load VMware Server 2 and then install ESXi in it and test your configuration. Do all this from your desktop (as it is decent). You can also do in my computer. A quick google search should give you all the information you need to get something like this configuration.
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