Section 6.10. Solutions Fast Track


6.10. Solutions Fast Track

6.10.1.

6.10.1.1. P-to-V Terms
The source server is the physical server that you'll be migrating into your virtual infrastructure.
The target server is the target virtual server that you'll be migrating your source server into.
The swing server is where you'll place the images of your source servers.
6.10.1.2. cat Your Hard Drive
With the cat p-to-v process, you make a copy of your hard drive at the block level, and then pipe the standard output of the cat command into another file located on a swing server.
Using the native Linux command cat, you can image your physical server. That image can then be pulled into a virtual machine using a process very similar to the one you used to extract it from the physical server.
The cat p-to-v process works 100 percent of the time with any physical server running any operating system.
6.10.1.3. BartPE
If you're more comfortable with Windows, then use BartPE and Ghost 8.0 to create the image of your physical server, which you can then Ghost into a virtual.
BartPE allows you to create a bootable Windows CD-ROM or DVD that generates a Win32 environment where applications such as Ghost can be run.
BartPE requires its own Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server license.
6.10.1.4. VMware P2V Assistant 2
VMware's P2V Assistant is a tool that creates virtual machines from physical machines and takes care of changing out the Hal and Ntoskrnl files to correct versions.
The tool works on Windows platforms only and is fairly straightforward.
The tool can take a Ghost image and turn it into a virtual machine.
6.10.1.5. Platespin PowerP2V
The tool with the most bells and whistles is Platespin PowerP2V, which allows for multiple p-to-vs running at the same time, schedules p-to-v jobs, allows for disk resizing on the fly, and, of course, changes out Hal and Ntoskrnl files for you.
Like VMware's P2V Assistant, Platespin handles adding the correct Hal and Ntoskrnl files as part of the migration process.
Unlike VMware's tool, Platespin can migrate Linux servers as well.



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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