When performing a P2V or a V2V migration process, it’s a good opportunity to reduce the number of processors that the virtual machine will use. When you are migrating a multiprocessor server to a uniprocessor virtual machine, keep in mind that the HAL of the virtual machine needs to be changed from multi to uniprocessor. [...]
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Change the HAL from multiprocessor to uniprocessor on a Windows 2003 Virtual Machine.
Posted in VMware, P2V on 8 July 2011 | 2 Comments »
Assign a static MAC Address to a Virtual Machine on VMware infrastructure.
Posted in VMware, vCenter, vSphere, Converter, P2V on 9 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago I was P2V’ing some servers for a customer. The servers had application license bound to the MAC address of the NIC adapter so I had to change the auto-generated MAC address to a static one. Follow these steps to change the MAC address from auto-generated to static. First, remove the VM [...]
P2V quick reference guide.
Posted in Converter, P2V, vCenter, VMware on 10 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been doing a lot of P2V’s for different customers lately and since most of the actions performed during the P2V procedure repeat themselves quite often, I’ve decided to create a quick reference guide for the P2V migrations. The steps described below are based on the Windows machines from different vendors. Let me know if [...]
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