Physical-to-Virtual

In computing. Physical-to-Virtual ("P2V" or "p-to-v"[1]) involves the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server's operating system (OS), applications, and data from that physical server to a virtual-machine guest hosted on a virtualized platform.

Methods of P2V migration

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.

Fully automated P2V

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

  • Veritas Backup Exec has Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion (and V2P) feature build into the backup engine which can be used for migrations or instant recovery
  • 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.
  • 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 (and V2P, V2V or P2P).
  • Virtuozzo contains automatic P2V (and V2P) migration tools.
  • SanXfer by InQuinox is an automated server and data migration tool for P2V, V2P, and P2P with complete (server and storage) hardware independence.
  • SureEdge, migrator by sureline systems is fully automated server data migration tool for p2v, V2vLinux and windows server migration, applications, i.e. Ms SQL server, oracle with complete hardware independence, cloud independent from any cloud to any cloud migration.

See also

References

  1. Muller, Al; Wilson, Seburn (2005). "Chapter 6: Physical-to-Virtual Migrations". Configuring VMware ESX Server 2.5. Syngress. p. 139. ISBN 9780080488578. Retrieved 2013-07-24. The concept of this p-to-v process, or any p-to-v process, is really quite simple: you are making a copy of your hard drive and piping it eventually into a virtual server.


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