http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/ Technology, Education, IT, and Internets Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/comment-page-1/#comment-152 David Marshall Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:30:18 +0000 http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/#comment-152 One thing that people should be aware of, in case they already aren't, a very simple and sometimes overlooked thing during a P2V process is to make sure that any specific hardware vendor software, drivers, etc. are removed or uninstalled once migrated over to a virtual machine. I've had the case a few times where I left something from the hardware vendor, and although it didn't fail on boot, I noticed that it would creep up on me over time and either blue screen me after months of being up, or would cause a higher than normal CPU or RAM issue. Just an FYI. Great articles, very useful. One thing that people should be aware of, in case they already aren’t, a very simple and sometimes overlooked thing during a P2V process is to make sure that any specific hardware vendor software, drivers, etc. are removed or uninstalled once migrated over to a virtual machine. I’ve had the case a few times where I left something from the hardware vendor, and although it didn’t fail on boot, I noticed that it would creep up on me over time and either blue screen me after months of being up, or would cause a higher than normal CPU or RAM issue. Just an FYI. Great articles, very useful.

]]> http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Gorillapond Dot Com » The Result of P2V: A Possible Fix Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:09:02 +0000 http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/#comment-140 [...] I have been trying to ‘fix’ the issues I had discussed in the original posting about our servers which had undergone with Physical to Virtual migration. [...] [...] I have been trying to ‘fix’ the issues I had discussed in the original posting about our servers which had undergone with Physical to Virtual migration. [...]

]]> http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Osama Salah Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:23:48 +0000 http://www.gorillapond.com/2006/09/13/the-result-of-p2v/#comment-100 That sounds interesting but not very objective to come to any conclusions. Someone would need to do a benchmark of a new setup VM against a P2V one. It would also be interesting to know if there is a difference from what physical machine it has been virtualized. Maybe that could help pinpoint a possible cause. Of course in such a test both setups should run the exact same OS, patches and applications. That sounds interesting but not very objective to come to any conclusions.
Someone would need to do a benchmark of a new setup VM against a P2V one.
It would also be interesting to know if there is a difference from what physical machine it has been virtualized. Maybe that could help pinpoint a possible cause. Of course in such a test both setups should run the exact same OS, patches and applications.

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