vmware Clod Migration boot cd for SQL Database server Migration

[sivaksk147]

Hi techies,

I have an a requirement to Migrate an one of our Physcial DB server to virtual machine, Since it is very critical to business so i thought to go with cold cloning with boot cd, but i could not get this bootable cd any where..! can some one help me on this? and also please suggest me is there any other way i can do this task successfully with out fails ?

[zXi_Gamer]

so i thought to go with cold cloning with boot cd

While I am not sure exactly how that process would work, I can recommend you to use P2V

When you say cold cloning, do you mean that you can afford downtime?

[memaad]

Hi,

VMware has removed cold migration Boot CD from download portal. It is not available anymore. However if you want to migrate SQL server.

1. You can use VMware converter to convert whole machine

2. If it has any RDM from SAN attach to this SQL server, then convert only OS disk and map RDM disk to converted SQL machine.

Regards

Mohammed

[aravinds3107 · Accepted solution]

VMware Converter 5.x has the ability do perform sychronize so you can use this perform p2v migration

1) Perform a full P2v and when its done and you are ready to cut over

2) Stop the database service and do a synchronizaion and bring the VM back online

[duldul201110141]

check http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/sql-virtualization/overview.html