Physical-to-Virtual
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Physical-to-Virtual ("P2V") describes the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server's OS, applications, and data from a physical server to a virtual machine guest hosted on a virtualization platform.
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[edit] Methods of P2V migration
[edit] Manual P2V
- User manually creates a virtual machine in a virtual host environment and copies all the files from OS, applications and data from the source machine.
[edit] Semi-automated P2V
- Performing a P2V migration using a tool that assists the user in moving the servers from physical state to virtual machine, such as Microsoft's Virtual Server Migration Toolkit
- VMware provides a semi-automated tool called VMware Converter for moving physical servers into virtual environments. Converter replaces two older utilities: Importer (bundled with VMware Workstation) and P2V Assistant.
[edit] Fully automated P2V
- Performing a P2V migration using a tool that migrates the server over the network without any assistance from the user.
- Leostream is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
- PlateSpin PowerConvert is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
- Virtuozzo contains automatic P2V (and V2P) migration tools.
- Vizioncore vConverter is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
