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Title: P2V conversion of SME 7.4 with VMWare Convertor
Post by: slepmog on September 04, 2009, 10:45:04 AM

Hi guys,
We are trying to find the best/safest way of doing a physical-to-virtual conversion of our SME 7.4 server so we can move it off old hardware onto our new ESXi 4 servers.

Does anybody have any experience of installing running VMWare Converter on SME Server - does it run, if so what are the pitfalls etc. ?

I don't really want to run blind on this since this is our mail server and don't want to end up breaking it!

Many thanks

Title: Re: P2V conversion of SME 7.4 with VMWare Convertor
Post by: Stefano on September 04, 2009, 10:58:43 AM

my 2c: converting a physical server to virtual under linux (and particularly SME) is not a good idea..

you'd best bet is to create the VM, install SME, setup Affa (http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa) and "raise" the new server.

it's easier to do than to explain

Stefano

Title: Re: P2V conversion of SME 7.4 with VMWare Convertor
Post by: MSmith on September 04, 2009, 03:22:10 PM

Completely agree ... the Affa way of moving SME to new hardware is the most painless server migration I've ever done, period.