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  • 1.  What's the best practices using the vCenter converter standalone to convert DC from P2V

    Posted Feb 02, 2020 09:37 PM

    Hello All,

    Could you please assist me with the best practice to convert an Active Directory Domain Controller, My scenario is as below:

    I have 3 nodes works together:

    • One Physical (win 2012) &  [ P2V ]
    • Two Hyper-V virtual machines (win 2016) [ V2V ]

    Thanks in advance



  • 2.  RE: What's the best practices using the vCenter converter standalone to convert DC from P2V

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 08:28 AM

    I believe this covers what you need

    VMware Knowledge Base



  • 3.  RE: What's the best practices using the vCenter converter standalone to convert DC from P2V

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 08:32 AM

    Hi,

    Tasks to perform before conversion

    To prepare for conversion:

    1.     If the source is a domain controller, special considerations must be made. VMware does not recommend virtualizing an active domain controller with Converter.

    continue reading from the article:

    vCloudNotes : Information Sharing: VMware P2V Converter Best Practices...Pre and Post conversion checklist

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    Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM

    A Guide to Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware by NAKIVO

    ARomeo



  • 4.  RE: What's the best practices using the vCenter converter standalone to convert DC from P2V

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 12:55 PM

    I really Appreciate your kindly assistance, Very helpful links.

    T180985​ AlessandroRomeo68​

    But in my situation i have a complex DC servers & i would get more benefits if i converted directly instead of creating a new VM if i could know a safe path to convert it. !!

    In addition, I have two file servers working in a fail-over cluster (Shared LUN (RDM)) between them. any suggestion about the steps of how to convert them ?

    Thanks



  • 5.  RE: What's the best practices using the vCenter converter standalone to convert DC from P2V

    Posted Feb 03, 2020 01:13 PM

    Hi,

    this AndrewTheGiant answer in the post summarizes the steps on how to virtualize a Windows cluster very clearly.

    P2V Windows Cluster

    • first step (cluster physical-virtual)
      P2V of the passive node (to convert ONLY the system disk)
            then you turn off the phycal node and add to the VM the cluster disk as RDM
            and then power on the node
    • second step (cluster across boxes)
      move the resource to the virtual node
            than P2V of the remaing physical node
            turn off the physical node
            add the cluster disk as RDM to the new VM
            and then power on the second virtual node.

    Or

    Using VMware Converter to convert Microsoft Cluster (MSCS) nodes to virtual machines

    VMware Knowledge Base

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    Virtualizing existing domain controllers in VMware vCenter Converter

    VMware Knowledge Base

    ARomeo