P2V Windows 2008 R2
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@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
I am telling you what has worked in my experience. Last year I converted 20 something vms doing what i suggested with xenconvert on xs 6.5. Most of these were on HW raid and i successfully converted every single one, form win2k up to server 2012.
Honestly just try using the tool with xs7 it probably just works. and the servers can still be used while the conversion is happening.Yeah OK now I need to find a machine that has 1 TB of scratch space for the export to be sent to. I don't have it currently.
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@Dashrender Cant you just use an external usb drive?
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@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
Try a different tool. Like Vmwares Standalone Converter. You install it on your system, target the IP of the remote physical, and convert it. Giving it a storage target.
That will export into XS? As I mentioned in my OP, I don't have space on my ESXi host for this, so i can't import it there.
Plus I already said I wanted to avoid the convert/convert game.
With the converter you just export it to a VHD file. The VHD file can be imported into XenServer using XenCenter (XO doesn't support VHD)
and I'm back to having a scratch space problem.
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@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
The issue with this is the same issue as was discussed yesterday. The underlying storage that the VM is looking for is the RAID array. That is why the devices have the cciss.
If you can convert the disk to a NTFS disk for example, then you'd have no issues booting the VM.
How you can do this inside of XenServer... change the underlying hardware (when the server its self sees is asking for the wrong hardware)
FFS, WTF are you talking about? He knows the old device is not longer there and he needs to tell windows to stop using it.
The vdisks are perfectly accessible, simply windows needs fixed.
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@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender Cant you just use an external usb drive?
Well that will take forever... I'd honestly just dig up 6 old hard drives that are the same, and create a temp file server.
For something not critical use freenas.
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@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
The issue with this is the same issue as was discussed yesterday. The underlying storage that the VM is looking for is the RAID array. That is why the devices have the cciss.
If you can convert the disk to a NTFS disk for example, then you'd have no issues booting the VM.
How you can do this inside of XenServer... change the underlying hardware (when the server its self sees is asking for the wrong hardware)
FFS, WTF are you talking about? He knows the old device is not longer there and he needs to tell windows to stop using it.
The vdisks are perfectly accessible, simply windows needs fixed.
Ok dipstick, how do you fix it? I clearly said I wasn't aware of how to do this. So provide some help rather than being a touchy P**k
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@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
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@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
He'd still be in the same situation with the OS looking for the array.
Windows backup doesn't abstract that information away.
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@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
The issue with this is the same issue as was discussed yesterday. The underlying storage that the VM is looking for is the RAID array. That is why the devices have the cciss.
If you can convert the disk to a NTFS disk for example, then you'd have no issues booting the VM.
How you can do this inside of XenServer... change the underlying hardware (when the server its self sees is asking for the wrong hardware)
FFS, WTF are you talking about? He knows the old device is not longer there and he needs to tell windows to stop using it.
The vdisks are perfectly accessible, simply windows needs fixed.
Ok dipstick, how do you fix it? I clearly said I wasn't aware of how to do this. So provide some help rather than being a touchy P**k
Not sure, because I would not have done anything the way he did.
But, I do know that you are talking out your ass.
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@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
He'd still be in the same situation with the OS looking for the array.
Windows backup doesn't abstract that information away.
Umm, yes it does. No we know for a fact that you have no idea what you are talking about.
I have converted multiple servers from P2V and V2V using the backup built into Windows Server 2008.
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Startup Repair should be tried as it is probably the quickest thing to try and has worked for me.
or you can do
bootrec /scanos (will try and find the windows partition of unbootable windows)
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd (think that is one) -
@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
Startup Repair should be tried as it is probably the quickest thing to try and has worked for me.
or you can do
bootrec /scanos (will try and find the windows partition of unbootable windows)
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd (think that is one)I believe @dafyre mentioned this posts ago, but @Dashrender never responded to it.
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@JaredBusch
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@DustinB3403 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender Cant you just use an external usb drive?
Well that will take forever... I'd honestly just dig up 6 old hard drives that are the same, and create a temp file server.
For something not critical use freenas.
LOL - freenas - really?
Lots of assumptions here -
- I have six drives lying around
- those six drives would be large enough to give me the needed space
- I have a PC with 6 of the needed ports
And since I don't have 1, I can't have 2, and I don't have 3 either, so this is a giant no go.
If I was going to try this type of route, I would install install ubuntu or CentOS and just create a giant partition and share it SMB. no FreeNAS needed.
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@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@JaredBusch
Ah, lots of stuff going on must have missed that one.He did not post the commands though, +1 for that. @Dashrender needs all the help he can get at this point, because he is in stubborn mode.
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@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
I haven't used Windows Backup in over 15 years - and when I did that one time, it failed miserably.
I'm not sure Windows backup would make any difference in this case - I would fully expect the Windows backup to still have the RAID drivers in it, and that the restore would expect it to still be there.
What I think I could use now though - an appAssure recovery disk or StorageCraft's Shadow Protect recovery disk that allows for the injection of drivers into an existing backup/recovery.
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@Dashrender said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
I haven't used Windows Backup in over 15 years - and when I did that one time, it failed miserably.
I'm not sure Windows backup would make any difference in this case - I would fully expect the Windows backup to still have the RAID drivers in it, and that the restore would expect it to still be there.
What I think I could use now though - an appAssure recovery disk or StorageCraft's Shadow Protect recovery disk that allows for the injection of drivers into an existing backup/recovery.
Nope, Windows Backup had an advanced option you can select during restore to tell it that you are restoring to disparate hardware.
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@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@JaredBusch said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
@Dashrender why didn't you use the normal Windows backup utility built into Server 2008?
I haven't used Windows Backup in over 15 years - and when I did that one time, it failed miserably.
I'm not sure Windows backup would make any difference in this case - I would fully expect the Windows backup to still have the RAID drivers in it, and that the restore would expect it to still be there.
What I think I could use now though - an appAssure recovery disk or StorageCraft's Shadow Protect recovery disk that allows for the injection of drivers into an existing backup/recovery.
Nope, Windows Backup had an advanced option you can select during restore to tell it that you are restoring to disparate hardware.
TIL
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@momurda said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:
Startup Repair should be tried as it is probably the quickest thing to try and has worked for me.
or you can do
bootrec /scanos (will try and find the windows partition of unbootable windows)Can't find OS
https://i.imgur.com/OVsFJ06.pngHere is the dir contents - I know this is my boot/system partition
https://i.imgur.com/h2t1NWS.pngbootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd (think that is one)https://i.imgur.com/nHiXF9I.png
Still not seeing the install.
