Physical SharePoint Server to Virtual conversion

[anorrie]

I'm trying to convert a HP ProLiant Physical Windows 2k3 Standard with SP2 server running SharePoint 2007 to a Virtual machine.

The job runs fine up to about 11% then slows down drastically. I left it running for about 24hours before it failed on 70%

This is the only server to date which has had a problem.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Andy

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anorrie

[oreeh]

FYI: this thread has been moved to the VMware Converter forum.

Oliver

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[admin]

Are your users still accessing the system during the hot clone? If so, try to keep them off during the conversion.

[anorrie]

There are no users connected and I also stopped the web services. I attempted another clone yesterday for the third time after stopping the services but the conversion still grinded to a halt.

[theanykey]

Can you first run chkdsk /f

Then can you defrag your disks

then run the conversion again - try it without resizing the volumes

[doubleH]

hot or cold clone?