Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals

Physical to virtual (P2V) conversions (2.5.6)

Nowadays, virtualization has become the major network service driver and organizations are migrating their physical servers to virtual servers (P2V) for reasons such as cost, ease of management, and future expansion. Thus, knowing that VMs are using VHDs, Microsoft engineers have developed the Disk2vhd app (see Figure 6.14) to convert a physical disk drive (PHD) to a virtual hard disk (VHD). Then, with Hyper-V Manager, you can create a VM using the converted VHD:

Figure 6.14. Physical hard disk (PHD) to virtual hard disk (VHD) conversion with the Disk2Vhd app

You can download the Disk2Vhd app from ...