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1. VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT DRIVERS
2. VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT UPDATE
3. VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT DRIVER

Note: I like to thank you Lieven D'hoore and is site, for the help and ideas on P2V and with the pre and post scripts.Welcome to VMware Workstation Pro™ documentation. PS: If you have any issues or any type of problems with P2V, just contact me and maybe I can help, or can be an issue that I have encounter in the past and I can help. Hope this will be helpful for all the users in future P2V servers This finishes this long tutorial about migration P2V for Windows server. If this server is an Application server, run the app to see if you experience any issues.If this server is a Webserver, check if IIS is running and test one or two sites configured in IIS.If this server is a Database Server, check Database Services and run Database Management Tools.Check the Automatic services, if they are all running.Ħ. Open Browser and test internet connection.ĥ.

Ping from another server the VM IP server.Ĥ. Logon to the server using a Domain Account.ģ. This task is to choose what to migrate, and choose the allocation for the P2V resources.Ĭhoose what disks are to migrate to Virtual environment.ġ. > Customizing the Virtual Machine and resources (destination).

VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT UPDATE

In this screen do not update network parameters. VConverter will start to collect information from the Physical server. Use and add this files then continue with the P2V Migration. Note: If this Physical Server is a Windows NT4 server which has Service Pack 6a you need to add two files to the vConverter (startup) as per the requirements: After the vConverter BootCD start, need to start the P2V migration.When the server starts, the vConverter BootCD will boot up.> Start the P2V Windows Server migration. Then just run the following command in the console:Ĭ:>fcinfo /mapping > c:\P2V\Files\Storage_Settings.txt (Targeted command: if no adapter specified, defaults to adapter 0) Output example: com.emulex-LP9002-0, num: 9 - (DeviceName, B, T, L) After all this tasks, put the Converter BootCD in the CD-ROM, and restart the server. Using the fcinfo get the WWN and the LUN ID for each disk.Īfter installing the small tool, Go to Start Menu and Run> cmd.

VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT DRIVER

Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server, SP3 or greater (SP4 recommended).Ī Fibre Channel HBA driver that supports the HBAAPI standard.) The Fibre Channel Information Tool requires the following: (Fibre Channel Information Tool is a command line interface (CLI) tool that supports scripting. If this is not the case, bypass this section.ĭownload a small tool to get adapter/disks information for Storage team. This next section is only needed if your physical server uses Storage data disks. Last task is to reconnect all LUNs to migrated Virtual Machine.Ĭheck if there is any Storage Disk checking if there is any FC Adapter.Īnd check SCSI and RAID controllers If there is Storage Disks and FC Adapters, follow the above tasks. Second task is to provide the recovery point for roll back of the migration.

First they have to be protected during the P2V migration process. Note: For a better disk letter or partition control for further view, you can take a print screen for the Disk Management partitions and save on the physical server.įirst we need to check if there is any Storage Disks attach to the physical server.ĭisks that are assigned from the disk array to the physical host have to be treated in special way.

VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS NT DRIVERS