Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Use VMM’s P2V function to convert physical computers or Citrix XenServer virtual machines to Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Use VMM’s V2V function to convert virtual machines created on VMware ESX to Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Use the online P2V process to convert physical computers to virtual machines without disrupting the online server.
• Use the offline P2V process to convert offline physical computers to Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Use the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit to convert Windows NT Server 4.0 computers to virtual machines.
• Perform a disk defragmentation on the source computer before performing the P2V conversion.
• Ensure that a fast network ...
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