VSS backup and security when converting over the network
Hello I am remotely converting machines, from a live "hot" XP box. Does anyone have any thoughts on security "over the wire" here? There seems to be no documentation discussing any security/encryption...
View ArticleP2V from Hyper V with Direct Access Disks
Hi, Our current Exchange Machine is running on Hyper V I would like to migrate this into our production vmware environment. The problem is that the hyper V machine has direct access to two physical...
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if you want to do that, then you will need to treat the Guest as a physical machine rather than undertaking a Virtual to Virtual conversion. what version of Exchange are you running, post 2010 mailbox...
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
If you are connecting Converter to a vCenter server, then the traffic to/from vCenter is encrypted (by default - you can turn it off for performace reasons). When connecting to SMB shares - it depends...
View ArticleSteps for cold conversion
Dear Team, I ma planning to do a p2v for one server for that i have planned to do a cold conversion. Need ur help how to perform cold conversion for sucessfully p2v . regardsMr VMware
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
Converter has the option of storing the conversion VM locally, but that requires the full converter installed locally. It uses VSS to capture the PC and create the VM image. There is an option to...
View ArticleRe: Steps for cold conversion
The term P2V stands for Physical to Virtual conversion or Powered On machine to Virtual one.The term V2V stands for Virtual to Virtual conversion of Powered Off machines to other place.The term cold...
View ArticleRe: Steps for cold conversion
If the machine you want to convert is a physical one, you can't use Converter for a cold migration (not supported anymore). You can do the hot conversion, and usually it works just fine. You can also...
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
All transfers between the Converter Agent/Converter Standalone Server to the vCenter server are encrypted. In fact, when you convert a physical machine to a vSphere environment, the connection is made...
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
Apologies here, I havent been entirely clear. Thanks for the replies so far, learning new stuff is always good, and sounds like vCenter would be the way to go, and 60 days free would be plenty to do...
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
Yes it does, the copy goes anyway on the 443 and 902 port, even if you connect to the ESXi or vCenter as Conversion destination.
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
If you are using a local folder (e. g. workstation destination) to store the resulting VM, then whether or not the traffic is encrypted is entirely up to SMB. Converter does not do anything special in...
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Thanks - that was what I was expecting. I suppose the only other thing in that case would be if the agent on PC being captured is sending VSS data (for the receiever to compile) or creating and writing...
View ArticleRe: VSS backup and security when converting over the network
The agent on the source is creating and writing a VMDK disk directly on the destination SMB share.
View ArticleRe: Converting Linux P2V to ESXi 5.5 with Vmware Converter 5.5 fails on 1%...
This problem was solved when I used the Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone Client version 5.5.3 build-2183569
View ArticleRe: BlueOnyx and vConverter
Hello everybody, We found the problem !!!By default, BlueOnyx (and perhaps other distribution) disabled the noexec right on the /tmp.... ... ... /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-tmp on /tmp type ext3...
View ArticleRe: BlueOnyx and vConverter
Thanks for sharing.This is a good candidate for release note or KB article.
View ArticleQuestion: With the new standalone converter how do you do a Cold P2V?...
With the new standalone converter how do you do a Cold P2V? (booting from CD)
View ArticleRe: Question: With the new standalone converter how do you do a Cold P2V?...
Well, I see Cold Conversions are no longer supported.
View ArticleXenServer 5.6 - CentOS/RHEL (xen-kernel) VMS to ESXi 5.5
Well. My first question here, has anybody done a migration from XenServer 5.6 to ESXi? I can run the converter fine, and I'll get a VM on the other side I know this won't boot as the VM is using the...
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