Libguestfs - Dec 2014 - Regarding queries on P2V migration

Dear Team,

As we are planning to migrate one Physical server to Virtual server (VMware) to
run one critical application.

Physical Server Status

Virtual Server Requirement

OS

RHEL-5.5

OS

RHEL-5.5

No Of Core

16

No Of Core

?

Memory

10 GB

Memory

?

Storage

2 TB

Storage

500 GB

LVM

No

LVM

Yes

Architecture

64 Bit

Architecture

64 Bit

Application

Oracle & SAP

Application

Oracle & SAP



We saw on the RedHat Technical Web portal that "Virt V2V" only support
for RHEL-5.6 and above.

Please show us the way to do it.

Thank you.

Regards,
Abhishek Saurabh



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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:53:30AM +0000, Abhishek Saurabh
wrote:
> Dear Team,
> 
> As we are planning to migrate one Physical server to Virtual server
(VMware) to run one critical application.
virt-p2v doesn't support conversion to VMware at all, only to KVM.
> We saw on the RedHat Technical Web portal that "Virt V2V" only
> support for RHEL-5.6 and above.
This is incorrect.  Where did you see this?

Rich.

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