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Also known as "P2V" Physical-to-Virtual 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.


METHODS OF P2V



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.



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 semi-automated tools for moving physical servers into virtual environments



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.



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