Where are with EZP2V?

[Michelle_Laveri]

Hullo guys,

Golly, this is be first post to the P2V forum in a year (or maybe a bit less)...

I wanted to ask... last year the www.ezp2v.net project was started... I never got round to evaluating it or have kept up with its changes...

I wanted to know if you use it?

Have your experiences been good ones?

How does it rate against say RTFM's UltimateP2V and SanBarrows MOA?

Regards

Mike

ps just writing a quick jumpstart of VMware Converter to the new book -and wanted to give a nod to "free virtualization"

[continuum]

Mike

you are comparing apples with peers ...

EZP2V, UP2V and not to forget Markus Debus' FIXIDE are little command-line-tools for offline-system-patching.

EZP2V has a focus on ESX as target, FIXIDE is useful for Workstation and UP2V is useful for both VMware-variants.

I see no point in rating them against each other - all three are little and if you are clever you have all of them in your toolbox and use each when it fits best.

My MOA project is a platform you can use to run any of these 3 tools - you can use MOA or UBCD4Win or Reatogo or XPE or roll your own PE to run this 3 mentioned tools.

For P2V-admins MOA certainly is the best choice of platforms as it already comes with very useful VMware-tools like vdiskmanager, importer .... not to forget VMware-workstation which can be used to create all kinds of VMs or convert physical disks into vmdks ...

By the way - I don't see that VMware's free Converter will ever replace the three free tools in your toolbox ...

Ulli

[Michelle_Laveri]

Actually, my question was a lot more basic than that... I wasn't out to compare them at all...

Put more simply I wanted to know:

1. does it work

2. do people use it a lot

3. do people rate it

4. is it reliable

Regards

Mike

ps While I think they will always be room for 3rd party - home-brew P2V. But in the corporate space they are generally a non-starter. The enterprise buys products with commerical support and enterprise agreements...