Pre-requisite
1) Keep a note of unnecessary services running on the server and stop it. Its better to take a screen shot of all the services on server
2) Make sure to stop the Antivirus and any database service.
3) Disable the Hardware vendor services like Hp insight manager or Dell OMSA.
4) Remove any USB attach devices.
5) Check the enough resources available on ESX server like CPU, Memory and space requirement fulfilment on data stores. Allocate another data store in case space on it fell short.
6) Take a snapshot of Network configurations and keep a note of it.
Converter Process either P2V or V2V
1) Go to Start, programs => Vmware => Vmware Converter
2) Install the license file by providing the path to license and add it (Not Cover in screenshot). We need to add the license file which is required for remote client converter
3) After this, Click on Convert machine on the Top left corner of the application
4) Click on Next
5)Click on Next
6) Click on type of Machine, Select the appropriate environment as per the requirement. You can use converter for Physical to virtual and for virtual to Virtual migrations also.
7) Select local machine if you have installed on the target server or provide the computer name of the target machine which has to be virtualized. Provide your credentials and Click Next
8) In VM we have separate disk for each drive. C and D drive size will remain depends on environment to environment. You can add extra drive over here if there is any requirement for new drive and even change the size of existing drives on server.
9) Now comes destination host of Virtual Machine Click Next
10)Select VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine. You can also select other virtual machine if you want to convert the machine in to other supported file types.
11) Provide the name of the Virtual Center and your credentials
12)Provide the name of the virtual machine and Discovered virtual machine.
13)Select cluster in TRU Datacenter in Virtual Center.
14) Select Datastore for VM. Select Dev datastore for development Datastores and Prod for productions datastores. Make sure available space on a Datastore should be at least 10% of total size of LUN after allocating to the new Virtual Machine.
15)Select NIC network VLAN. Ideally one should be production and another should be development. You can add another NIC and select the appropriate VLAN. Make sure Uncheck the Connect at power on option.
16) Uncheck the option Remove all System Restore Checkpoints. Also, uncheck the other two options on the window.
17)Click finish to complete the P2V converter process. It will take at least two and a half to complete the process for a VM allocated HDD up to 50 GB. It will take more time as per the size of the physical HDD to be virtualized.
POST-CONVERTER PROCESS ACTIVITIES
1) Go to Edit settings of VM allocate the CPU and physical memory as required.
2) Remove all unnecessary hardware from the VM settings.
3) Boot the machine logon with local credentials
4) Remove non-present old hardware
- CMD prompt type set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
- Next type DEVMGMT.MSC and select Show Hidden Devices
- Delete any old grayed out non-present hardware
5) Change CPU driver properties to Unprocessed if there is a single VCPU used in VM
6) Install the VM tools on VM and reboot the server.
7) Detect all the new drivers and make sure all the drivers got detected on server.
8) Start all the service which we have noted earlier and check the functionality of services.
9) Check system logs on server, if there are any errors found, troubleshoot and resolve them.
