RE: Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Paul, I'll do a search.

Overall, how much hassle is it to move a physical install to virtual? I
gue=
ss IP addresses are the main thing to get right?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Bendall
> Sent: 13 May 2009 13:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
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> Software exists but not sure you'll find any free. We use Platespin at
> work but I seem to remember VMWare were working on a solution. It's
> normally referred to as P2V (physical to virtual), but can also do
V2P,
> V2V and P2P.
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Paul Gale <groups2@...> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know if there's a way to convert an existing W2k8 server
> install into an ESXi virtual install? (preferably free).
> >
> > I.e. I have two W2K8 domain servers with a spread of exchange
server,
> sharepoint server and a load of other MS stuff running on them spread
> over two 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 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
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > --- 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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