On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Adam Thompson wrote:
- Install the P2V tool on the workstation.
- Use the P2V tool to migrate the SBS server into a VM on your
workstation.
- Shut down the original SBS server. Boot the SBS VM and *MAKE SURE IT
WORKS 100%* before continuing.
- Install linux on the original SBS server, overwriting the old SBS
hard disks.
(AHEM...) If the server is at all important, DON'T OVERWRITE THE ORIGINAL DISKS. Spend $75 and get new disks. Even if they aren't cheapie SATA drives, the cost of a new replacement drive is so miniscule compared to the likely value of the data on the server.
Put another way: How can you be truly sure that it works 100%?
- Install VMWare Server on your new linux server.
- Shut down SBS VM on your workstation, and COPY the files over to the
linux server.
- Import the VM into VMWare Server on the linux server.
- Boot the SBS VM... make sure it works before continuing.
- Delete the VM from your workstation
- Uninstall VMWare tools from your workstation
- Done!
There are quite a few technotes in the VMWare knowledgebase about moving VMs from one server to another. The free "VMWare Server" product is closest to the "GSX Server" and/or "Workstation" products, so technical information on those two should apply (more-or-less) to the free edition too.
-Adam Thompson Divisional IT Department, St. James-Assiniboia School Division 150 Moray St., Winnipeg, MB, R3J 3A2 athompson@sjsd.net / tel: (204) 837-5886 x222 / fax: (204) 885-3178
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