Well after presenting on Thursday I guess I should really post up seem links that I promised to everyone and of course the first one really should be the link to the recorded show which is here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p10422037/ I suggest starting at around 5 mins 35 as we had a sound problem at the start, namely me not putting on the hands free mode in Adobe Connect :-(. So now for all the other links I promised I hope these are most of them if there are any I've missed just post a comment and I'll add it on:-)Microsoft 2003 R2 Trail Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx Microsoft 2003 R2 Licensing
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensingr2/overview.mspx#EQC VMWare Free Virtualisation Products
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html Virtual Appliances
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ Installing Vista RC1 on VMWARE Workstation and Server
http://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-install-and-configure-windows-........

COPYING A PHYSICAL MACHINE

1. VMware P2V Assistant
VMware offers a tool for this purpose. The only problem with this option is that the VMware P2V Assistant is quite expensive. Prices start at about $2,500 for the VMware P2V Assistant Starter Edition which allows 25 migrations. The VMware P2V Assistant Enterprise Edition costs more than $6,100. 2. Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit
The Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit is free, but it only helps you to convert physical machines to Microsoft's virtual machine format. However, you can import this format in VMware Server or VMware Workstation. The problem with this solution is that the Migration toolkit requires Windows Server 2003 Automated Deployment Services (ADS), although for free, only runs on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. The whole procedure to migrate a physical server to a virtual machine is quite complicated. Check out this white paper to learn how it works. 3. Install a new virtual server and restore a backup
If you only have a few physical servers that you want to convert to virtual machines then this might be the fastest way. Of course, you don't have to install Windows for every new virtual machine. If you have VMware Workstation you can clone them and if you only have VMware Server you can just copy the folder containing the virtual machine of your master server. Don't forget to run sysprep afterwards to get a unique Windows Server, then restore a backup of the physical server to the new virtual machine. Don't restore the hardware specific settings of your physical server. So if I have missed any info then feel free to contact me. If people want I will cover over the cloning in both Workstation and Server. but only if there is enough of a call for it :-) | View count: 332