Physical-to-Virtual

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Physical-to-Virtual ("P2V") describes the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server's operating system (OS), applications, and data from a physical server to a virtual machine guest hosted on a virtualized platform.

Contents

[edit] Methods of P2V migration

[edit] 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.

[edit] Semi-automated P2V

Performing a P2V migration using a tool that assists the user in moving the servers from physical state to virtual machine.

[edit] Fully automated P2V

Performing a P2V migration using a tool that migrates the server over the network without any assistance from the user.

  • vContinuum vContinuum by InMage systems is an automated P2V data protection/migration tool
  • Symantec System Recovery enables fast, automated P2V and V2P conversions
  • Quest vConverter is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM among many other capabilities has P2V capability.
  • AutoVirt AutoMove automates the process of migrating data from physical to virtual machines without client disruption.
  • Leostream is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
  • PlateSpin Migrate is an example of a fully automated migration tool for P2V.
  • Virtuozzo contains automatic P2V (and V2P) migration tools.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
Interaction
Toolbox
Print/export
Languages