P2V fails at Copy Hard Disk

I have been trying to get a P2V of a production system to use in our DR plan.  I have limited opportunity to do this, because I am not allowed to impact performance during production hours for this system, and the definition of production hours is fairly broad.  I have been trying for a couple… Continue reading P2V fails at Copy Hard Disk

HyperV Integration Services: Fatal error during installation

I managed to convince the “powers that be” that we didn’t need to have a dual quad-core server with the capacity for 32GB of RAM to and connectivity to our SAN sitting around doing nothing until they occasionally use it for upgrade testing…  So I did a P2V (Physical to Virtual conversion) and shut down… Continue reading HyperV Integration Services: Fatal error during installation