Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Software exists but not sure you'll find any free. We use Platespin at
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but I seem to remember VMWare were working on a solution. It's normally re=
ferred to as P2V (physical to virtual), but can also do V2P, V2V and P2P.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Paul Gale <groups2@...> wrote:
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> Anyone know if there's a way to convert an existing W2k8 server
install i=
nto an ESXi virtual install? (preferably free).
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> I.e. I have two W2K8 domain servers with a spread of exchange server,
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repoint server and a load of other MS stuff running on them spread over
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boxes. It'd be a nightmare to re-install both from scratch. I do back them=
up using Acronis True Image but not sure if these images can somehow be us=
ed?
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> Paul.
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> > -----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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> > Paul
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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.
> > >
> > >
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