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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 from the vCenter Server inventory. Open the datastore containing the VM and download the .vmx file. Optionally, make a back-up […]

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 you know any other steps that I should add to this list. Pre-P2V actions 1.  Create a P2V impact analysis […]