After a well plan, today I’m successfully P2Ved one of Windows DC (Win2K3) machine without much hassle. Without taking any risk on the exercise, I did cold clone the machine with simple steps as below :

• Using vCenter Converter 4.1.1 bootable CD
• Disable all critical services
• Retain the system drive as much as possible as we can during conversion.
• Removed HP Insight software after conversion (Network)
• Removed Trend Micro Software before VMware Tools installation.
• Reconfigure & verify network configuration
• Enable back critical services (i.e dhcp, dns)
• Only enable VM network after I finished will all above steps
• Turn-off main DC and test authenticate user to this DC

Next week, I will share the conversion steps for 2x Exchange 2003 Servers.
Ariyossss

athlon_crazy 06/03/2010

Had a problem with Merak FlexLM application today which cannot be started and complaint about licensing after I P2Ved the server to vSphere4. After when I looked into FlexLM .lic license, found out the license only eligible for the old physical server mac address and cannot be transferred to any other machine. Luckily, after I manually changed guest OS mac address (NIC property) akin to what I found in .lic license, I can start using the application (PEEP) flawlessly. To manually change and use your own mac address, please follow below :
Device Manager -> Network Card Property -> Advance -> Network Address / Local Administered Address -> Value

ariyossss

athlon_crazy 06/03/2010