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I’ve deployed VmWare Server at work and moved some of the existing physical machines into a virtual environment. Not having tools such as P2V assistant for an easier conversion was a pain, but I learned a lot during the process (such as copying devices and HAL info from a physical machine registry & file system into the virtual one). Acronis TrueImage Server was not much of a help because the darn Universal Restore function never worked right. So I ended up moving pretty much everything myself. I was even able to migrate some Linux servers to VmWare! Everything has been working quite well and I’m extremely happy with the results. So happy that I put VmWare Infrastructure for my next year’s budget :)
John,
Thanks for your feedback. Too bad I didn’t know anything about the converter. I still have a couple of machines that I want to convert to VmWare, so I will definitely give it a try.
Glad you had good results. It sounds like you have already virtualized your current targets, but in the future, take a look at VMware Converter (currently in beta). The starter version will be free, although the enterprise version will be more capable.