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P2V using SCVMM 2008R2 sp1 without Hyper-V Host possible?

Answered P2V using SCVMM 2008R2 sp1 without Hyper-V Host possible?

  • Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:29 PM
     
     
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    We have around 15 physical tower servers in our office, each of them dedicated for a specific role such as ADS, Exchange, IIS, SQL, Oracle etc running over various Windows OS such as win2008R2, Win 2008, win 2003 etc.

    All these tower servers are 75% utilized to there storage and computing capacity. We do not have any SAN nor a Hyper-V host in our office.

    We have decided to move all these servers into a Datacenter where we will put up new robust Rack servers. We then also plan to use Hyper-V in our datacenter & wish to migrate our office physical server into the datacenter as a VM's.

    Therefore we now have the challange to convert the physical servers in our office into Virtual Machines.

    We installed SCVMM 2008 R2sp1 on a highend desktop system at our office & decided to convert our physical machine to Virtual machines. But we are stuck as it seems that the P2V conversion using SCVMM also requires a Hyper-V host where the converted VM  will be placed. We do not have enough resources at the office to setup a Hyper-V host.

    Is there any way we can use SCVMM R2sp1 to do a P2V conversion and store the VM temperorily on a USB storage so that we can then move it to our datacentre, just like how we do a Export/import of VM's on hyper-v host

     

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  • Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:23 PM
     
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    You could use Sysinternals Disk2VHD for this pourpose. Simple to use and you can put your image anywhere. It will only create a VHD file which you can add to HyperV.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

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    • Marked As Answer by CosmicStorm Friday, February 17, 2012 2:17 AM
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  • Friday, February 17, 2012 2:17 AM
     
     
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    Mats, thank you so much for reminding me.

    I had almost forgotten that the sysinternals utilities suite tools had any such utility. This is going to make life easier for me.

    Thank you so much.