Comments on: Converting physical servers to virtual machines

By: Eric Siebert

Eric Siebert — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:02:20 +0000

here–> http://www.virtualization.info/2008/05/leostream-drops-p-v-direct.html

By: Eric Siebert

Eric Siebert — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:59:47 +0000

Thanks for pointing those out also. There are definitely numerous options available for performing conversions. As far as the Leostream product goes they've been very quiet about it and have not mentioned any future plans for it. I'm guessing that because there are so many P2V products available that they dropped it in favor of focusing on their Connection Broker product. You can read more on this

By: Peter Forster

Peter Forster — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:36:42 +0000

Hi Eric,

you missed one of the best tools out from Microsoft for doing P2V. Thats System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007/2008. Both versions can do P2V and are the recommended way in a Microsoft Virtualization World. Version 2008 is currently in beta and supports Hyper-V RC0.

Best wishes from Austria
Peter Forster
MVP Virtual Machines

By: Gregg Hughes

Gregg Hughes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:12:13 +0000

Good summary! I particularly liked the inclusion of roll-your-own solutions with ultimatep2v.

Is anyone picking up the Leostream product? I used it for a couple of one-off conversion and liked it.

By: jaycee

jaycee — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:10:11 +0000

Microsoft now sells System Center Virtual Machine Manager that allows to migrate windows 2000/XP/2003 machines to Virtual Server 2005 R2 VMs.
A trial is available at microsoft.com

Acronis True Image ECHO Server with Universal Restore can directly convert a working server image by injecting VMs drivers (Microsoft or VMWare) and getting it to boot.

Nice article though