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P2V question - use custom storage?
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:14 pm
by star_norm
I have a remote physical server that I only have remote access to and I would like to create a virtual image of it to send to my datacenter in my office. Can it do this? And if so, how?
Re: P2V question - use custom storage?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:22 pm
by anton (staff)
Yes, there's a P2V mode within our V2V converter.
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/v2v-he ... nario.html
star_norm wrote:I have a remote physical server that I only have remote access to and I would like to create a virtual image of it to send to my datacenter in my office. Can it do this? And if so, how?
Re: P2V question - use custom storage?
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:18 am
by mesolee
In theory, this seems like something simple but if it's not then we will have a problem.
File server we want to move P2V. C:\ Drive is local physical disk say 250GB. E:\ Disk Local Physical Disk say another 250GB. Three more drives on the server say G:\, H:\, and I:\ are all 500GB but are ISCSI LUNs.
When I go to migrate it says it is going to migrate 2TB of Data.
Question is... is it going to move the ISCSI data to a now local disk or is it just looking at the total used space by the server?? The server is only about 500GB in size MAX but another 1.5TB stored on a SAN unit.
Not sure as to what will happen. I don't really have space to provision that move. Those files need to remain on the SAN which we can expand storage there.
Re: P2V question - use custom storage?
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:45 am
by yaroslav (staff)
Hi,
Thank you for your question. If you do not want 3x 50 GB volumes to be converted, please do P2V conversion of the specific disks.