Section 6.6. VMware P2V Assistant 2


6.6. VMware P2V Assistant 2

The P2V Assistant 2 tool, provided by VMware, works well enough for the price. Although earlier versions required service packs and hotfixes be reinstalled after the p-to-v process, the most recent version states that this is no longer necessary, with Windows NT 4.0 being the only possible caveat.

The tool works on Windows platforms only and is fairly straightforward. However, there is mandatory training that VMware requires their customers to go through prior to using this tool.

The tool works well with third-party imaging products such as Symantec's Ghost and can take a Ghost image and turn it into a virtual machine replacing any files, such as Hal and Ntoskrnl, with the correct versions needed for the virtual machine to run optimally.

The P2V Assistant is licensed on a per-server basis as well since they offer an enterprise license which allows you an unlimited number of migrations. The perserver license decrements whether or not the migration was successful, which isn't exactly great.

For more information on this migration tool, go to www.vmware.com/products/vtools/p2v_features.html.




Virtualization With VMware ESX Server
Configuring VMware ESX Server 2.5 (Vol 1)
ISBN: 1597490199
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 173

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