Needed ports and services for a P2V
While reading some documents from Anne Jan and Erik about migrations of physical machines by means of P2V I noticed there was information about the ports that are being used for this migration: Physical machine to the converter server port 443 Converter server to physical…
Troubleshooting Blackberries after P2V
Earlier this week Anne Jan and I migrated a physical server with P2V with Blackberry Entetrprise Server. After the migration we of course asked the client to test all the services and application on that server. At that time all seemed just fine, but today…
Clean up before a P2V
Yesterday I made one of the mistakes I always warn my collegues about. I always tell them: “Make sure you know the situation before you change anything”. For some strange reason I made that mistake myself this time. I just started a migration and got…
P2V unstable hardware
Today we got a server from a company the client took over. It was an old server which was used to store scans from a multfunctional printer/scanner. This server needed to be P2V-ed to be used as an archive. The first shock was that it…