[OTHER] P2V using SCVMM 2008 or 2008 R2

[Bullseye81]

I'm looking to perform a P2V on our terminal server. Its running server 2008, and the destination server will be running server 2008 using Hyper-V.

Anyone have any experiences using SCVMM offline P2V? The physical server is using old Pentium 3 hardware, whilst the destination will be a HP server running Core2, possibly i7

Also not sure on choosing between the 2008 180 day free trial, or the 2008 R2 RC. I guess a test environment would answer that question

[Gristy]

Originally Posted by Bullseye81

I'm looking to perform a P2V on our terminal server. Its running server 2008, and the destination server will be running server 2008 using Hyper-V.

Anyone have any experiences using SCVMM offline P2V? The physical server is using old Pentium 3 hardware, whilst the destination will be a HP server running Core2, possibly i7

Also not sure on choosing between the 2008 180 day free trial, or the 2008 R2 RC. I guess a test environment would answer that question

pretty sure 2008 R2 RTM is up.

i dont know all the benefits but i think R2 gives
:multi vms per lun
:live migration

so unelss you have san/more than 1 host maybe stay with 2008 if you dont have access to R2.

also i have done some p2v migration with vmm, its pretty straight forward. it kinda
- installs a agent
- captures/converts to a vm
- boots / uinstalls agent
- installs hyper v integration components