RE: Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone know if there's a way to convert an existing W2k8 server
install int=
o an ESXi virtual install? (preferably free).

I.e. I have two W2K8 domain servers with a spread of exchange server,
share=
point server and a load of other MS stuff running on them spread over two
b=
oxes. It'd be a nightmare to re-install both from scratch. I do back them
u=
p using Acronis True Image but not sure if these images can somehow be
used=
?

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Bendall
> Sent: 13 May 2009 12:35
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
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> One thing with Virualisation that is annoying is you can't virtualise
> the Mac OS. From my reading this is because the Mac OS licence forbids
> installation on non-Apple hardware. Oh well I might have given MacOS a
> try but not if I can't virtualise and am forced to buy their over-
> priced hardware.
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon"
<martynwendon@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > (resending as it didn't seem to make it to the list)
> >
> > I got one of the HP ML115 G5 Opterons, I think they've been on
> various
> > offers for the last 5 months or so.  Currently 199 at serversplus
dot
> com.
> >
> > 8GB of RAM from Crucial is about 80.
> >
> > The server comes with a 250GB hard drive but I've got some
10,000rpm
> Western
> > Digital Raptors left over from another project to put in it and
I've
> > borrowed a couple of gigabit Intel network cards from work.
> >
> > Hopefully it should make a reasonable ESXi platform - there's a
good
> blog at
> > techhead dot co dot uk with plenty of information.  I like the
idea
> of a
> > "bare metal" VM server as you've then not got the
underlying OS to
> worry
> > about.
> >
> > I think that I may actually end up with more virtual servers than
I
> had
> > physical servers because it's an ideal opportunity to consolidate
> stuff a
> > bit (currently thinking of having separate xAP and xPL virtual
> machines as
> > at the moment stuff is spread out all over the place).
> >
> > I'm aiming to go from 6 * 24/7 machines to 2 hopefully!  One will
be
> the
> > ESXi machine running probably 4 VMs continually with another 3 or
4
> on
> > demand and the other will probably end up running anything that I
> can't
> > "virtualise" i.e. stuff that needs dedicated hardware.
> >
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark McCall" <lists@...>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Martyn Wendon
> > <martynwendon@...>wrote:
> >
> > > That's a really timely submission, cheers Mark & Paul!
> > >
> > > Yesterday I ordered a quad-core server and 8GB of memory to
go in
> it for a
> > > shade over =A3300 to be the basis for VMWare ESXi, now
begins the
> process of
> > > consolidating and vitalizing what I can!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Let us know how it goes Martyn.
> >
> > Did you buy a ready built server?
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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