Comments on: Converting VMware Server VMs to ESX Server 3.02

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:20:44 +0000

We have a client that is moving to the latest version of Deltek Vision and is considering running this on a VMWare ESX server. They are very reluctant because they were told by Deltek that this was not supported. Deltek stated that they have customers running this way but do not actively support it.

If I can get them a few testimonials from other companies running Vision in this manner I think they will move forward. They currently have several older servers that need to be phased out and some new ones that would run ESX with no problem.

Thanks

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:58:48 +0000

I made sure to remove all my snapshots before the migration, so I don’t know what would have happened if I tried to import some. I expect they just get truncated.

By: Matthew Carpenter

Matthew Carpenter — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:22:03 +0000

Very cool. Did you perchance run into any problems with a snapshot in your VMware-Server disk not converting into the ESX Server?

By: Scott Flowers

Scott Flowers — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:34:42 +0000

Quite correct Mircea. You need all the vmdk files, not just the first little text files, in order to do a conversion.

By: Mircea Vutcovici

Mircea Vutcovici — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:40:03 +0000

Note that source.vmdk is the description file (a small text file) and not the image of the disk (the big file that contains the data from the virtual disk).

By: Scott Flowers

Scott Flowers — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:19:17 +0000

We have an IBM Bladecenter, with several HS20 and a couple of HS21 blades.

Purple Drank sounds nasty.

By: LEIF

LEIF — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:22 +0000

MMMmmmmm Kool-Aid ….. hmmm if VMware is Kool-aid Microsoft must be Purple Drank!

What Kind of blades are you using?