Hello all,
This week I've tested out a few ways to do a P2V on a rather ancient CentOS 6 server, in order to move it to a Hyper-V host.
So far my tests have failed rather spectacularly. Initially I was set on doing a simple dd-routine, but was told that the server cannot be taken off-line as it's being used daily, so had to look for other solutions.
The disk setup is currently as follows:
Three 500 GB sata-disks, sda, sdb and sdc, are used to build a software raid called md0. No LVM's here.
Sdd is a 120 GB drive, with partitions for boot, swap, home and /. No LVM's here either.
The farthest I've gotten is with the Rear solution. http://relax-and-recover.org/
The backup goes well, but recovery for some reason fails to create initramfs with all the installed kernels, as well as failing with an error saying it cannot find /boot/grub, after which the recovery terminates.
Virtualizing systems like this is kinda' new to me, having it done on Windows only, and I'm not really sure how to proceed when it's a CentOS system in question.
The physical CentOS-server runs a few license managers and nfs-shares that server molecular modeling software, that are rather intricately set up (I inherited this server some fifteen years ago).
Are there any easier ways to do a P2V at all?