Monday, September 21, 2015

How to Convert Physical Computers to Virtual Machines (Microsoft Hyper-V)

It's Time to learn Virtualization World of IT. There are several ways to do, but the recommended option as inform bellow. Why I'm explaining now is because never to late to learn even though there are many ways to do it in the Internet now when you search, I'm just explaining from my perspective. Hope Clears you out. Cheers.
  1. Physical conversion to Virtualization using using the Microsoft ways.

    Before we begin, there are different ways converting physical to virtual, one most suitable option to do this is called Disk2VHD and yes is free from Microsoft. You can download from here and doesn't require installation meaning is portable version.
  2. After download completed, Run Disk2VHD from the physical server you are converting.

    Note : If your are planning to run Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2 based, remove "Use Vhdx" check option, otherwise it will not work. The use of vhdx option can only be used above Windows 2012 or Windows 8. It means that Hyper-V Windows 2008 cannot recognize converted virtual Hard drive with extension *.vhdx

  3. When Finish converting the process. you will get a file name with extension *.vhd or *.vhdx (again please note above) where you save the file.
  4. Create a new VM on a Hyper-V host, the whole process just followed default option.



    NOTE: Choose your VM generation carefully. Starting with Windows 2012 R2, Hyper-V has a new option: Generation 2 virtual machine. This is a second generation firmware for VMs with a revised set of virtual hardware and new opportunities for users, such as a boot from an SCSI device. There will be more to come on this topic in future releases. Among noticeable limitations of Generation 2 VMs, is that there is no support for a guest OS older than Windows 8, not to mention Unix-like. Practically speaking, choose this only for Windows 8/8.1 or Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 and only for 64-bit builds.
  5. When you finish,Right-Click on a VM, Select RUN, then Right-Click again, Select CONNECT.



  6. It will take some time for the VM to boot up since the hardware configuration will be different. However, in a few minutes you’ll see the welcome screen and be ready to log in to the system. Congratulations!


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