Microsoft is working on a new physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool for helping customers move legacy applications to Windows 7 using virtualization technology. The latest migration tool in Microsoft's ...

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In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. In part two we looked at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...

Following customer complaints, Microsoft has decided to re-introduce physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions in its System Center Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). It was dropped from the last version, ...

When planning a datacenter migration from P2V (physical to virtual), rebuilding servers in the virtual realm to take over for their physical counterparts is a task that must be accomplished manually — ...

Are P2V conversions still worth doing? Your email has been sent Physical-to-virtual conversions have a few gotchas, but they may be the best option when a proper application, data, and configuration ...

Well not sure about Xen but in VMware ESX it would be Raw Device Mapping is what you want to make the existing data drives appear in the new server without a virtual hard disk.

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