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Converting Physical Exchange 2007 Mailbox servers to VMWare VSphere Virtual Servers

Any recommendations or help would be much appreciated for converting two Exchange 2007 Maibox Servers to VSphere Virtual Servers. I have tried more times than I would like to admit with Vcenter Converter and even spent about 7 hours with support…
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Modifying Virtual Images Offline

I'm new to this vmware stuff. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify virtual images offline or know of any tools. I used VM Converter to convert my current desktop to an image. This is for a school project to be able to make changes to the…
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VMWare Converter - Exclude files/folder

Is it possible in VMWare Converter when converting P2V, to exclude certain files and folders... I have some large folders (temp / downloads / iso's / backups) I want to exclude from the conversion. I don't want to exclude a whole drive, just certain…
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Ubuntu 10.04.3 VMware guest - no network access after conversion to older VM format

I created and configured a Ubuntu 10.04.3 VM in VMware Player 3.1.4 and now wanted to deploy it on our VMware server, which is running at version 1.0.4. To do this, I used VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3.0 to convert the VM to a format that…
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Migrating standalone exhange 2007 to vCenter

I need to migrate our last server to a center. But i really not looking forward to move the last server. It contains exchange 2007, ad, dhcp and dns. Server os: windows 2003 R2 x64 It is to be moved out to our hosting center, so i'm planing to go…
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Clone and resize NTFS GPT partition?

I have a ntfs partition, GPT, of 5.6 TB containing only 200 GB of data, that I need to fit onto a 1 TB partition (of a vmware ESXi guest). Vmware converter does not support GPT. Acronis disk director does not support GPT. As I am not very familiar…
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How to install VMWare vCenter Converter plugin without internet?

I have a standalone (no internet connection) vCenter with some ESX hosts. And I want to install plug-in VMWare Converter (not a standaone version). How can I do that?
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Windows x64 2008 P2V? Has anybody had any success?

If I use VMware converter it throws Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered . Operation: Instantiating VSS server If I use Disk2vhd it throws Volume…
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Failed Conversion with VMConverter 4.0.1

Received this error @ 57% on Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 conversion going to a VMWorkstation 6.5 image via network share. FAILED: A general system error occurred: SQL_CANTOPEN: unable to open database file Running installed VMConverter…
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Disaster recovery options for my lone server running W2K3 std

What is the best disaster recovery option for my machine running W2K3 std edition? I have already imaged my machine using Clonezilla and I have also taken a backup using Windows Automated System Recovery tool. However, I am worried neither of these…
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How do I get VMware Converter to be selective with data?

Just testing some virtualization. Just P2Ving an Exchange server, we want to get the system drive (C:) and the data which lives on another drive (D:) with some other stuff. How do I get the converter to only bring the one folder over and ignore…
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Is there any alternate utility to VMware converter to host VM faster?

we are using ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 4.1. I am using VMware converter to host my VM in our ESXi server. As our VM size is 35 GB , it is taking half a day to host it. Is there any alternate utility to VMware converter to host VM faster?
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