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Hot Migration Guide for IT Admins

This document provides a 16-step process for performing a hot migration of a physical machine to a virtual machine using vCenter Enterprise Converter. The steps include completing pre-migration checks, importing the machine in vCenter, deploying an agent on the physical source machine, specifying VM configuration details like name, CPUs, memory, disks, and NICs, synchronizing changes during cloning, powering off the physical and powering on the virtual, and completing post-migration tasks once import is finished. The document also provides notes on renaming Windows 2008 physical servers that are migrated.

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Hot Migration Guide for IT Admins

This document provides a 16-step process for performing a hot migration of a physical machine to a virtual machine using vCenter Enterprise Converter. The steps include completing pre-migration checks, importing the machine in vCenter, deploying an agent on the physical source machine, specifying VM configuration details like name, CPUs, memory, disks, and NICs, synchronizing changes during cloning, powering off the physical and powering on the virtual, and completing post-migration tasks once import is finished. The document also provides notes on renaming Windows 2008 physical servers that are migrated.

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P2V Step by step document for Hot Migration using vCenter Enterprise Converter

1. Complete Pre Checks as per Pre Migration checklist


2. Login to VC with VI client
3. Right click on ESXi host /Cluster and choose Import Machine option
4. Following wizard will open

5. Provide the IP /hostname of the Physical machine alongwith credentials that have admin
privileges on that server.Choose “Windows” as OS Family if this is a Windows Server. Thereafter
click on “View Source Details” and say next.
6. Go with the Default selection of “Automatically uninstall the files when import succeeds” as
shown below :
7. The agent deployment on the Source Physical machine then starts
8. Agent deployment then completes and Physical Source machine details are populated as shown
below:

9. Please provide the VM name and also specify the OS Datastore on which you want the VM
specific files and OS disk to be placed as shown below:
10. The next screen shows customization options .Specify the destination folder for placing the
Virtual Machine.
11. Specify the datastores for holding OS and Data disks (.vmdk) for the VM

12. Specify the number of CPUs and Memory for the VM as per the Specification.
13. Specify the number of NICs needed alongwith the port group as requested. Pls keep the NIC
disconnected. So uncheck the “ Connect at power on” check box. This is to avoid the name
conflict while physical is being powered down and Virtual is coming up.
14. Check the “Synchronize changes that occur during cloning” to enable the data changes done on
physical to be replicated to Virtual during the conversion process. Also check the option to
power off the physical and bring up Virtual. In Post configuration task check the “ Install VMware
tools on the Virtual Machine.” Leave other options checked as they are .

15. The summary page appears showing the parameters selected. Review and go back to make any
changes else say “ Finish” to start the conversion process.
16. Finally monitor the import process through vCenter and start with post migration tasks as per
post migration checklist once the import is completed and VM comes up powered on.

Note: Important information related to renaming of Windows 2008 Physical Servers in Production
environments as a part of post migration checks:

Perform the following tasks through iLO

 Logon to Physical with domain admin credentials


 Disable the NICs
 Move the server to Workgroup
 Rename the Physical to servername'o'
 Reboot and then set the NICs to DHCP
 Finally power off the server for decommission and rename the ilo to reflect the changed
servername (ilo-servername'o')

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