I have continued to do some more conversions with the tools in Beta 2 of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I did another V2V conversion of a Windows 2003 Server SP2 machine. That one went quite well -getting used to the Microsoft tools has certainly helped speed things up in getting a VMware VM converted to a Virtual Server VM.
I also did a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion today. The source server was a test server running Windows Server 2003 SP1. Unlike the V2V tools in the beta, the P2V tools can be driven through the GUI. After answering a few simple questions the conversion kicked off. I did not keep an exact eye on the time, but to convert the server running on an 18GB mirror it took around an hour for the conversion to finish I think. Add some more time to get the VM booted, new hardware detected and another reboot to get the Virtual Additions installed and it was a relatively quick process.
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