Creating virtual machine with existing data
Hi all
I have virtualized my almost all servers except the one and only one file server. I'm under vsphere 4 with 2 ESXi hosts and a 2000 Eternus model 100 SAN and using Veeam 6 B & R
Current configuration
Physical server with 2 network cards
1 NETWORK LAN card
1 SAN NETWORK card using MS iSCSI initiator
Windows 2003
There are 2 volumes on my SAN which is connected via the MS iSCSI initiator containing the data for the file server. Server file sharing (NTFS) files stored on the San, and they have a lot of NTFS permissions on files and folders (approximately 1.5 TB of data).
Ideal configuration
1 virtual server
1 vNIC to LAN
2 volumes of SAN share via the server
Windows 2008 r2
My question
Can I just add volumes to vsphere, create a virtual machine, add the two volumes of the virtual machine as 2 hard drives, the actions of installation and do with it? I wonder where the permissions are checked and if these measures can be made without wiping the volumes. I don't have another 1.5 TB of free space on the SAN. I have a Netgear NAS I use as a target for backup if necessary but I prefer not to have to move the data if it is not needed.
I hope that I have covered all my bases to make this easy to understand situation and we hope to meet .
Thank you
Welcome to the community - Yes, you would be able to present the NTFS on the computer virtual hosted on your server using a RDM (Raw Device Mapping). Permissions on NTFS volumes are stored in the NTFS file system-
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