Cold /Conversion cloning

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• Cold conversion steps

  Dear team,

  I intend to do a p2v for a server that I planned to do a cold conversion of my. Need your help how to convert cold to sucessfully p2v.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  The term P2V is physical to virtual conversion or powered on virtual machine one.

  The term V2V means conversion of slots machines virtual power off the power at the other place.

  The term cold conversion means conversion with the help of CD converter based, unfortunately it is outdated for a long time.

  If your real question what?

• Question: With the new stand-alone converter how do you do a cold P2V? (booting from CD)

  With the new stand-alone converter how do you do a cold P2V? (booting from CD)

  Well, I see that cold Conversions are more supported.

• Conversion to Active Directory.

  Hello

  We run 3 x VMWare ESX4, vCentre Server hosts and the converter.

  We also have 2 Active Directory domain controller currently as physical servers outside the virtual machine environment.

  I'm looking forward to use guided codification tool to convert the a DC to a virtual machine - and then let the other like a physical machine.

  Anyone know if I am having trouble with going to the DC out of sync or any terrible things happen if I should try it?  Is there best practice procedures that this kind of thing - or things to aovid?

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Steve

  Recommended method is to build a new domain controller instead of doing a P2V.

  But if you do a P2V to the existing one, be sure to use cold conversion (using the ISO Converter).

  André

• Windows 2003 fails to start after the conversion from a virtual hard disk with vSphere Standalone Converter 4.0.1

  Hello

  I've recently updated my host to vSphere 4. I've also upgraded to vSphere Converter 4.0.1. However, when I convert a Microsoft Windows 2003 virtual hard drive in vSphere, the resulting virtual machine does not start. He gets just after the BIOS screen, then turns black with only a white line in the upper left corner of the console.

  I tried the hot and cold conversions. I tried changing the different settings of default conversion. I tried to remove the source machine and recreate.

  It worked well under ESX3.5, so I wonder what I'm doing wrong on vSphere.

  Any help appreciated.

  Thank you.

  In v4 disk are in SCSI format only.

  Probably also the source was in the SCSI format... so v7 to the IDE format give you not configured in the bootloader of the disks.

  André

• VMware Converter standalone OR... I'M CONFUSSED!  Help, please

  Hello

  I have the vmware converter plugin installed.  What is this for?  I can't find any documentation.  The only documentation I can find is for the stand-alone version.  Work together or what?  Then the documentation still says to install the converter on the source machine and I understand not what converter, they're talking about. I want to do a cold cloning on my SQL servers.  It's the standalone "VMware-converter - 4.0.1 - 161434.exe" and it's the VMware converter ' VMware - Converter.exe "I use the standalone version for a test of my Vista machine as a clone of good hot and has worked.  But I do not understand the cold cloning process.  Can someone point me to the documentation.

  My environment is PE2950, ESXi 4.0 embedded, vCenter Server vSphere 4.0.  I am cloning all standard W2K8 servers.  Some SQL, domain controllers and servers of rest files.  A Server Application.

  Help!

  Thank you

  GEOBrasil

  GEOBrasil,

  I understand the confusion around the different products of converter.  I hope that I can help you better understand which version is right for you.  The reason for the different versions is based on what type of conversion you want to do, which are based on physical operating systems (Source) and your virtual environment (Target) is going to be.

  Couple of warning or best practices:

  -VMware recommends NO conversion P2V from DC.  It is better to build NEW virtual machines for this.

  -Hang your applications (SQL, WEb, etc.) before making a hot-clone (plug-in or standalone Enterprise)

  First, for each platform VI3.x, VI4.x there are TWO business (plugin) version and a standalone version (Windows & Linux applications)

  -VMware comparison chart gives an overview of the differences (http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/get.html)

  Non-exhaustive summary below:

  Enterprise Edition:

  Pros: vCenter integration and automation, supports

  Cons: you have to pay for it (you already have it if not the factor in your assessment.  No 'multi-stage' conversion (i.e. 1 snapshot converter, deltas on a machine running are lost or migrated manually).  No Linux support. Can't stand VI as a platform to target.  Includes the CD "cold-clone".

  Stand-alone Edition:

  Benefits: support Linux.  Supports the VMware Desktop products (workstation, Fusion, etc.) as target platforms. "Several steps" cloning, intial snapshot conversion as deltas.  Source and target of service and the power of command for Windows.

  Cons: Billable per-incident support.  No automation, scheduling.

  Cold-conversion

  Benefits: no changes can occur on the source server.  preserves the logical partitions.  No service application comes into conflict with the local area.  No installation on the source area

  Disadvantages: Requires downtime for the source server.  Requires the driver support for all devices on a physical to be present in BootCD (WinPE) Server

  Hope this helps

• vCenter Server 5 install in a virtual machine or not?

  Hi all.

  We have a health care environment small assisted living with a dozen sites/servers

  A server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.

  We received two new servers ESXi installed 5. They will host several virtual machines of Windows Server for most of the migration of the current VMw4.

  I want to install vCenter Server 5 to manage.

  My book of VMware by Lowe, he mentions that install the vCenter server in a virtual machine has limits.

  It mentions cold migration, cloning and editing material are not available.

  He also mentions the considerations with the help of a distributed virtual switch.

  Ufortunately that he won't go into details.

  But there seems to be benefits such as the backup server and fast food when you use a virtual machine.

  Any thoughts?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  It is one of the common design decision. now VMware recommended is to use a virtual machine.

  some of the benefits you can get are: -.

  The vCenter Server system can be revived in a cluster of high availability of vSphere

  VM resources CPU and memory can be easily resized. The vCenter Server system also benefits from vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster workload balancing.

  You can easily save or create a virtual machine as needed.

  him as a physical Machine will be some disadvantages such as:-

  To ensure availability, you must purchase and use additional software such as vCenter Server Heartbeat or a third-party clustering solution.

  You must properly size the physical machine's resources.

  You must have a separate system and use imaging software to take a snapshot of a physical machine.

• migrate virtual machines to esxi 3.5 free vsphere 4.1 without vcenter

  Hi all

  I have vms on 2 hosts esxi 3.5 with direct (without san)-attached storage that I want to migrate to a new server esxi under license of 4.1 vsphere essentials. I intend using the stand-alone converter to migrate virtual machines from 3.5 to 4.1 and then upgrade the other two hosts to 4.1 and then moving some virtual machines using the converter.

  I have Web servers that I don't want to bring down more than 10 to 20 minutes (not the 1 to 2 hours that should be a cold conversion with converter) so I try to use the feature p2v on the virtual machine running Web servers.

  Has anyone done this with no san and no vcenter? If so how did you do?

  is it possible to migrate without losing configurations of network adapter in the virtual machine?

  I can just do something like taking a snapshot of the system of runnying, then copy files to new host, then add to the inventory, upgrade tools, hardware upgrade?

  Thank you!

  is it possible to migrate without losing configurations of network adapter in the virtual machine?

  After you copy the files and re - add to inventory new virtual machine, you must take care on the issue of handgun that you see in the market.

  Choose I_moved the files to keep the VM UUID and the same virtual MAC address.

  André

• Physical to virtual clustering on vmware

  Hi all

  We plan to convert one of our (AD) domain controller in Virtual box, then must make grouping with another physical box (DHCP).

  Can someone help me on this...

  First need to know

  1 can we do clustering on physical Virtaul-bix in a windows environment. ?

  2. Keeeping (ADC) box of vmware domain controller is recommended... a... ? If so can we Virtaul virtual or physical to virtual clustering.

  Note: The controller (ADC) of area intended only DHCP enabled no specified ROLE on this.

  Thanks in advance

  Concerning

  Konate

  What do P2V ADC?

  This is a wrong approach

  AD is a database structure that could not be stopped on a running system.

  So the only way to make a coherent P2V, it is use a cold conversion (but you need the Enterprise Converter) or try to do it in Restore Mode Active Directory.

  André

• Where to find image Converter Boot CD

  Anyone know where I can get this? I found an older post that had a URL, but this page is now for the product standalone freebee. I have of deliverance for the Enterprize converter and have the plugin installed, but have never had to make a clone of cold. Thank you in advance,

  Chris

  Sorry Chris,

  I don't know what I was on earlier when I answered it!

  From the manual of the 4 converter - you need to download a previous version (for example, Enterprise 3.x) to get the CD ColdClone

  Prepare for cold cloning

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0 can't stand the cold of cloning, you must use an older version

  Converter edition boot CD. Features supported on the boot CD depend on the version of the product you choose.

  VMware Converter 3.0.x Enterprise edition is not a free software product.

  Procedure

  1 to get a bootable CD, go to the download of the VMware Web site and download Converter 3.0.x Enterprise

  installation.

  2 extract the .iso CD boot from the installation package.

  3 burn the .iso of the CD boot to a CD.

  My apologies for misleading you.

  If you go here-> http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/

  Straight down, select VMware vCenter Converter 3.0.3 (Standalone Enterprise Edition) and you can download it from there. Hope it clears everything for you

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• Exchange 2007, P2V or migrate the mailboxes?

  We have our Exchange 2007 running on two servers environment. A server is to access to the client and one for the letters/hub transport boxes. Months ago we did a P2V on the client access server and there work very well since. Next week we want to virtualize our box at the letters/hub transport server. I got two options:

  1. perform a P2V with VMWare Converter making a cold conversion

  2 set up a new server instance of the letters/hub Exchange 2007 under VMWare boxes and then migrate the mailboxes. It would involve a new installation of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (64-bit) and a new installation of Exchange 2007 under VMWare and then using Microsoft tools to migrate the mailboxes.

  Any thoughts on how we should go?

  We run what ESX 3.5 fully patched. Our current box the letters/hub Exchange Server works on a blade in my IBM BladeCenter. We present this server with two LUNS of my Netapp FAS3020, one for the mail store and one for the log files. The disks we use currently in the Netapp are SATA. Monday we're going to bring online a new tray of fiber channel disk, and this will be where the data for our virtualized Exchange servers store will reside. In the end, it would be easier if the virtualized Exchange Server had the same IP address and the host name, otherwise I have some additional work to do with my ISP and my Barracuda Spam firewall. If we move to the second track, I don't know if this part will be delicate.

  We have about 600 mailboxes and our database of mailboxes is about 90 GB in size

  Migrate the mailboxes - fully phased in with little or no risk and roll back is a snap.

• Cold Clone W2k3 no boot.ini after conversion file

  Hello world

  I tried to make a cold clone of W2K3 Server on IBM x 346 8840 with new enterprise Converter 4.0.3 and cloning ends successfully ab. But the boot of the destination VMS on ESX 3.5 U3 Cluster fails with a BSOD and an error message like "corrupt boot.ini". OK, let's go I have connected the new hard Boot Partition file to another virtual machine and looked at the necessary boot files. No file boot.ini in there. I copied a boot.ini file from another virtual machine with the same geometry of disc and the Buslogic controller, but it does not help.

  Is there anyone who knows why this happens, and what can I do to prevent this? I spend a lot of x 346 and it woul'nt be funny if I have the same problem on all machines.

  Thanks for the help,

  joergimo

  joergimo,

  Welcome to the VMware Community Forums.

  Is there anyone who knows why this happens, and what can I do to prevent this?

  I never saw a cold clone remove or damage a Boot.ini file.  The worst I've seen, it's that the boot.ini file is an unsupported ARC path.  But which results in a BSOD 0x0000007B (inaccessible boot device).  Also, if filled with 100% conversion, it means this converter Treaty the boot.ini in the phase of reconfiguration.  If we go to the root cause on the side of converter, then newspapers.  The problem with this... newspapers are stored in RAM to the physical reception and are deleted after the system is restarted.  Is it has not been stored, then they are lost forever.

  The real question is: where to go from here.

  Given that the virtual machine can be started, you could start on a Windows 2003 Server ISO, in this way, you can perform a /rebuild bootcfg to recreate the boot.ini file.  Essentially, it will treat the virtual machine as if it was physical and the steps are exactly the same.  XE has already posted articles, so I won't repeat that here.

  See you soon,.

  EvilOne

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• What is the difference between a virtual machine cloning and v2v conversion to a virtual machine

  What is the difference between a virtual machine cloning and v2v conversion to a virtual machine

  Cloning process is to duplicate a VM. V2V is deploy vm on vsphere environment to another virtual machine format (example: the workstation, hyper-v).

• Cloning of cold

  Hi all;

  I'm a cold cloning.  my original database is in "No. ARCHIVE LOG" .

  When executing create control file, I have not any out or any error. I've waited a long time.

  
  

  SQL > startup nomount pfile='/u01/app/oracle/admin/orcltest/pfile/initorcltest.ora';

  ORACLE instance started.

  Total System Global Area 608174080 bytes

  Bytes of size 1268920 fixed

  188744520 variable size bytes

  415236096 of database buffers bytes

  Redo buffers 2924544 bytes

  SQL > @/ u01/backup/control01.sql.

  18

  
  

  > > > no exit or not error > > > >
  

  
  

  
  

  Alert.log showing only the following information

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Sat Sep 19 00:52:47 2013

  Starting ORACLE instance (normal)

  LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0

  LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0

  Shared memory for the instance of created monitoring segment

  Diagram of SNA picked latch-free 2

  Using the default for the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_10 as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST parameter value

  Autotune undo retention is enabled.

  IMODE = BR

  ILAT = 18

  LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0

  SYS audit is disabled

  ksdpec: called to the event 13740 before initialization of the event group

  Commissioning ORACLE RDBMS Version: 10.2.0.4.0.

  Parameters of the system with default values:

  process = 150

  __shared_pool_size = 159383552

  __large_pool_size = 4194304

  __java_pool_size = 25165824

  __streams_pool_size = 0

  SGA_TARGET = 608174080

  control_files = u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/control01.ctl, u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/control02.ctl, /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/control03.ctl

  DB_BLOCK_SIZE = 8192

  __db_cache_size = 415236096

  compatible = 10.2.0.1.0

  db_file_multiblock_read_count = 16

  db_recovery_file_dest = / u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area

  db_recovery_file_dest_size = 2147483648

  UNDO_MANAGEMENT = AUTO

  undo_tablespace = UNDOTBS1

  Remote_login_passwordfile = EXCLUSIVE lock

  db_domain =

  dispatchers = (PROTOCOL = TCP) (SERVICE = orcltestXDB)

  JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES = 10

  background_dump_dest = / u01/app/oracle/admin/orcltest/bdump

  user_dump_dest = / u01/app/oracle/admin/orcltest/udump

  core_dump_dest = / u01/app/oracle/admin/orcltest/cdump

  audit_file_dest = / u01/app/oracle/admin/orcltest/adump

  b_name = orcltest

  open_cursors = 300

  pga_aggregate_target = 201326592

  PMON started with pid = 2, OS id = 3069

  PSP0 started with pid = 3, OS id = 3071

  MA started with pid = 4, OS id = 3073

  DBW0 started with pid = 5, OS id = 3075

  LGWR started with pid = 6, OS id = 3077

  CKPT started with pid = 7, OS id = 3079

  SMON started with pid = 8, OS id = 3081

  RECCE has started with pid = 9, OS id = 3083

  CJQ0 started with pid = 10, OS id = 3085

  MMON started with pid = 11, OS id = 3087

  MMNL started with pid = 12, OS id = 3089

  Sat Sep 19 00:52:48 2013

  commissioning 1 dispatcher (s) for '(ADDRESS =(PARTIAL=YES) (PROTOCOL = TCP))' network address...

  commissioning or shared server 1...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  My eyes to script trace of control as follows below,

  CREATE CONTROLFILE SET DATABASE 'ORCLTEST' RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG

  MAXLOGFILES 16

  MAXLOGMEMBERS 3

  MAXDATAFILES 100

  MAXINSTANCES 8

  MAXLOGHISTORY 292

  LOGFILE

  GROUP 1 ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/redo01.log' 50 M, SIZE

  GROUP 2 ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/redo02.log' 50 M, SIZE

  GROUP 3 ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/redo03.log' SIZE 50 M

  DATA FILE

  ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/system01.dbf',

  ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/undotbs01.dbf',

  ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/sysaux01.dbf',

  ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/users01.dbf',

  ' / u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest/example01.dbf'

  CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1

  ~

  Thank you all;

  You must remove the old controlfiles to the directory/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcltest

  Try it again.

• cold cloning .iso

  How can we get their hands on the cold cloning .iso image?  The docs say download VMware vCenter Converter 4.1.x edition and extract the .iso image file, but could not find this version anywhere.

  Prepare for cold cloning

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.2 does not support cold cloning, you must use the Boot CD

  an earlier edition of Converter vCenter. Features supported on the boot CD depend on the version of the product

  you choose.

  VMware vCenter Converter 4.1.x edition isn't a free software product.

  Procedure

  1 to get a bootable CD, go to the download of the VMware Web site and download vCenter Converter 4.1.x

  installation.

  2 extract the Boot CD .iso from the installation package.

  3. write the file .iso Boot CD on a CD.

  What to do next

  Follow the instructions on the screen to a cold cloning.

  You must obtain a license for the ESX enterprise.   If so, then your account will allow you to download the ISO of cold Clone

  -MattG

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