Ohh that suck. Me suck or partner suck? I totally have no control on the hardware part. Imagine, from the hardware list as given below, I shouldn’t have any problem to setup POC for VMware HA, vMotion, DRS, vum & vCenter Heartbeat :

1. 3x SUN Blade 6000
2. 2x Sunfire x4150
3. 1x SAN storage
4. 1x SAN switch
5. 1x Dell Pentium III desktop Read more
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Last night I successfully P2Ved SLES 9 using VMware Converter Standalone Server 4.0.1 to ESXi 4.0.0 (Dell R900). The two(2) SLES 9 running Novell iPrint & Virtual Office. There is no procedure or guideline to P2V both servers but I always do this when it come to Novell OES server:

• stop ndsd, namcd, slpd, ntp, tomcat4, httpks services
• stop any third party software like antivirus, database & etc.
• enable root access on SSH
• start P2V

Things that may need some alert :

• LVM volume will not be preserved after conversion
• SLES Network may need to reconfigure via yast

The conversion is pretty straight forward since both servers dont have any LVM volume. On the converter site, I always choosed static IP instead dynamic & use ip address instead hostname for source machine. If possible get SLES 9 rescue CD if anything goes wrong to your SLES 9 machine after P2Ved.
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