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Exclude Folder When P2V - 13.Feb.2011 11:28:00 AM

Ase

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Hi,

I have a physical Windows server that I want to convert to a Vmware virtual machine.

There is one huge folder on the physical machine that I want to exclude in the P2V job (it is on the C: drive so I cannot just deselect it).

Is that possible to achieve?

I use Vmware workstation at the moment, but if needed other version would be possible aswell.

//Ase

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 16.Feb.2011 8:38:50 PM

Scott Lowe

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Ase,

are you using VMware Converter for this task or are you using some other P2V tool?

Scott

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 17.Feb.2011 1:13:10 AM

Ase

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Hi Scott,

Im using the builtin tool that comes with VMware Worksation.

//Ase

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 28.Feb.2011 10:22:23 PM

Scott Lowe

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Ase,

My lab at home is torn down for a few days -- including the machine on which I run VMware Workstation. As soon as my lab is set back up, I'll be a little testing and get some information back to you.

Scott

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 24.Sep.2011 5:07:15 AM

Ase

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Hi All,

Any new info on this, the problem still persist.
I also tried the newly released tool "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 5.0" but with no success.

//Ase

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 28.Sep.2011 12:19:44 PM

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Is it possible to convert this folder to a mounted volume? Then before running the P2V you can dismount the volume!

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 30.Sep.2011 4:14:17 AM

Ase

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Hi,
No I cannot see that as a solution.
This is an produktion server with everything on Drive C and I dont want to mess with the drive, like ex. splitting the drive to C & D.

I need every now & then to make a P2V and test new programs to see that they work before I apply them to the physical server.

The extra folder is just costing me a lot of extra space and time everytime I make the P2V.

//Ase

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RE: Exclude Folder When P2V - 2.Oct.2011 11:49:52 PM

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Ase,

Going along with George's idea... could you move everything to another volume and make it appear as if it's still on the C drive by creating an NTFS junction point? I recently had to do something similar and it worked well. I couldn't reconfigure an application to use a different drive and this method solved the issue.

Scott

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