V2p vmware windows 2008 r2

Do you need to be concerned about state or not? Where do the data and the binaries reside? You need to figure these things out like you did. Or they are weary about the fact they cannot control what and how you use the tools and techniques.

Using Windows backup to virtualize works but is somewhat more time consuming and error prone due to user mistakes and idiosyncrasies in the product.

Good luck! Congrats for the article! I backed up using bare metal recovery option but when I tryed to recover it shows me the message: The system image restore failed. Error details: Windows did not find any disk which it can use for recreating volumes presente in backup. Offline disks, cluster shared disks os disks explicitly excluded by user will not be used by Windows.

Ensure that disks are online and no disks are excluded by mistake. Hi the first thing to check is that the disk sizes new sever match the size of the original one or is larger. Other wise it will not work. Make sure you have the drivers for the controller. Thank you so much! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Restore the old operating system onto the computer. Thanks Metzen, that's the stuff I was looking for.

I even recall an app that scanned your devices and registry and would show you what hardware IDs were going to be attempted to be booted from at every boot and gave you the option to install more drivers for different hardware for the live of me I can't recall it's name. I know I found it because during my inital SAS controller card testing of Windows 7 RC I had to swap them around and this app was a life saver for doing it all for me.

I just did the exact same thing on my test box. Performance was pretty abysmal. The MS documents on V2P are non-existent or irrelevant. Luckily I then came up with the solution described below instead. You should be able to see the new drive as "not initialized" in Disk Management. Do not power on your VMware Machine again!

It's all bullocks when you're going V2P instructions are supposedly for V2V. Doing my instructions above did. Someday, I hope to do more inclusive instructions as this is the second time I've had to do that first was a Windows 7 computer -- same instructions.

If anyone knows about this tool, or you remember the name and post it. Using the universal boot feature you can boot that disk on a physical server. V2P conversion can be used as a backup on a schedule or as a final V2P migration.

In addition you can utilize BackupChain as a:. As an all-in-one backup software , BackupChain also includes additional features, such as:. EFI was our main complication as the disk was larger than 2TB.