How to Cheat at Configuring VmWare ESX Server

Chapter 10. Instant Disk: How to P2V for Free

Solutions in this chapter

• What Is a P2V?

• P2V Techniques

• The “Big Secret” of P2V

• Instant Disk Overview

• Prepping the ESX Host: Setting Up FTP on ESX Host

• Prepping the Source Machine: Install the SCSI Driver

• Continue Prepping the Source Machine: Validate

• The Linux Rescue CD

• At the Command Prompt

• Finding the Hard Drives and Storage

• Virtual Disk Files on the VMFS

• Starting the FTP Process

• Creating a New Virtual Machine and Pointing It to a New VMDK File

• Summary

Introduction

Your overall goal is to consolidate that server room full of hardware into a more easily managed and less expensive to operate and maintain integrated ...