[BlueOnyx:08572] Re: vmware

[Jeffrey Pellin]

As I recall VmWare supply a free converter to convert physical to virtual
machines. 

I have used this once or twice and it is surprisingly successful. If I
remember rightly you will need to mount the disk on another machine to
convert it. 

I have never tried this with a BO server, but offhand I can't see why it
wouldn't work (famous last words!) 

Regards 

Jeffrey 

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:53:59 +0200, Miguel Saiz  wrote:  Hi,   I am
working the same. For us the best solution was to use CMU.   The work line
we did was:   1.- Provide a new virtual server (300GB of HD space thin
provision) 2.- Install BO and update yum 3.- Make it a template 4.- Use
this template to replicate the virtual machines 5.- CMU to each virtual
server   Note: The provision of 300GB is to avoid later LVM configuration
for virtual servers that need more HD space.   I hope it helps   Best
regards Miguel

 2011/9/23 Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software Group 
  Hi,

 We use BX on vmware and have successfully
converted many P2V servers.

 You can use the vmware standalone converter, which can be downloaded from
the vmware.com [2] website, but you must ensure that root can login to SSH
on the source machine - this can be set through the GUI.

 For the best results we have found CMU to be the best. There are a lot of
threads on CMU and how to use it. This method works best for us everytime.

 We are currently in the process of moving to 5107/8, which we will
accomplish using the CMU method above.

 Happy to discuss further.

 Kind regards, 

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 On 22/09/11 23:31, Michael Stauber wrote:  
Hi Tony,

Has anyone made a description of how to move a bx server to a vmware vps?

Maybe there are some VMware tools that can "rip off" a real server and
turn it 
into a VM. If so, I'm not aware of them. This might be a question for some

that are more familliar with VMware.

Other than that CMU is of course always an option.

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