Conversion from physical to virtual server

Our server technology group wants to convert our physical
server that contains the RoboEngine to a virtual server (using ESX
VMware). We are using RoboHelp 5 to publish WebHelp to the
RoboEngine. Has anyone else converted from a physical to a virtual
server? If so, could you tell me about any problems you
encountered?
Thanks,
Liz

Hello Nelson,
There are quite lot of things in TMG which are dependent on Hardware.
If you want to migrate from physical to virtual server, you can follow the steps here which are recommended/supported way of doing it.
Though this article is for ISA to TMG migration, still you can follow the same steps for Physcial to Virtual migration.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440994.aspx
Please let us know, how it goes!

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also running in our company. All these versions of R/3 are IDES.
Our Windows administrators are of the opinion that servers on which the instances 4.6c and 4.7ee are running are very old,
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Hi Markus,
Thanks for your reply. Would open an OSS call.
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holds good in my case. From the note I have also deduced that for Windows, licenses are based only on the Hardware Key.
Am I wrong in assuming this?
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A new installation of Windows definitely causes the hardware key to change.
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I am trying to move my CUPS server from a physical server to a virtual server. I am running CUPS 8.5.3 (8.5.3.10000-60). I have followed the same steps as doing the migration for Call Manager. Backed up server to the network, installed fresh copy and restored the backup. It goes through the restore and is successful on everything but the DB. When I look at the log it has the following:
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Query conversion from access to sql server

I have sql in access I need to convert to sql server . I am stuck three days please help me
TRANSFORM First(Eval1to4.answer) AS FirstOfanswer SELECT Eval1to4.evalOid, Membershiptypemap.mappedvalue as membership, First(Eval1to4.answer) AS [Total Of answer] FROM (Members RIGHT JOIN (Eval1to4 LEFT JOIN Orders ON Eval1to4.evalOid = Orders.oid) ON Members.CID
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There isn't an exact equivalent to pivot queries in t-sql.
There is a pivot operator but it requires that you know and explicitly specify the pivoted columns when you're creating your code.
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to specify the pivoted column names). The problem with dynamic pivots is the fact that they are useless. You can't put them in views, functions or stored procs and I'm not aware of any reporting software that can work with a variable number of input columns.
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So... My 1st suggestion is to not pivot the data at all in SQL. Instead, pivot the data in whatever application you're using to display the data.
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Move Exchange 2010 SP2 from Physical to Virtual

I am currently running Exchange 2010 on a server which is hugely underutilised so am hoping to virtualize Exchange and other servers on this machine.
What is the best way to move/convert Exchange?
I will require this machine to be reinstalled with Server 2008 R2 server core to run only Hyper-V.
I thought of backing up (to multiple locations, just in case!!), reinstalling the server with core + Hyper-V, then restoring the backup to a new VM.
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Details of products and services, you can contact Microsoft product and service center.
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Hyper-V: after convert from physical to virtual not start

Hi
i'm converted windows server 2008 R2 standard to virtual after this created new virtual machine and everything it is ok
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Dear Brian Ehlert
Thanks for reply
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2) is this a generation 1 VM? (it must be)
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3) did you attempt to repair the bootloader in any way?
NO
Note:
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Hi All,
I need a urgent help to know, if there are any disadvantages if we setup a Business connector environment in Virtual Server rather than a Physical server?
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Hi Bindu,
we are running all of our BC servers on VMWare images. Works perfectly. You are better off installing the BC from scratch and remember if you are installing it onto Windows XP or alike you should select the Windows 2000 compatibility mode both for installation as well as when running it. This will allow it to run just fine.
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Hi Doug,
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Virtual Server problem

We are having a problem with the wrong pages being displayed
for a new virtual server that has just been setup on one of our
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server, I get index.cfm from the existing virtual server. HTML
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hopefully a solution)?
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Migrate SharePoint's SQL Server (physical) to another SQL Server (virtual server)

Infrastructure team is migrating domain\SQLSERVER db to new ‘XYZ’ Location. Also they are moving these DBs to virtual server. Currently these are physical DB servers.
I am trying to keep the server names as same ‘SQLSERVER ‘, but IP address may change. Does it have any impact on MOSS environment and what configuration changes need to be done, if needed???
Note: - i am using alias for my share point 2010 server .
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2 WEB SERVER , 1 APPS SERVER
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No any Customization only 2 site colleciton with Nintex workflow.

You can move all content databases to another SQL server, but moving Configuration DB will have impact on the farm. You can make it work using SQL Alias created on SP server using cliconfg.exe utility but some of the services will break on your farm. As
far as I know It is not recommended to move config db from one sql server to another.
You can check below link for referrence on moving databases from one sql to another sql:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725(v=office.12).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shaden/archive/2007/07/05/moving-the-sharepoint-databases-to-a-new-sql-server-instance.aspx
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Convert Physical DPM Management server to Virtual

Hi,
I am looking to convert my existing DPM 2012 R2 physical management server to a virtual server.
The current setup is a physical server with locally attached storage and a secondary DPM server in another site (which is already virtual). Both DPM servers were recently upgraded to DPM 2012 R2 and are running Windows 2012.
I would like to use the same hardware but run DPM as a virtual server and attach the physical disks in Hyper-v as pass-through disk. I don't have enough hardware to do a side by side migration (which would be much easier)
My plan is as follows.
backup DPM database
rebuild physical DPM server as hyper-v server
create new DPM virtual server with same name, ip etc.
install dpm and restore db from backup
attach old DPM physical storage drives to virtual DPM server
I am fairly happy at doing the rebuild and database restore as I have done this before, but I don't know if I can attach the existing DPM drives from the storage pool and retain the data.
I have a secondary server so would not lose the backup data, but it would be a lot easier if i could keep the data on the storage pool
Does anyone know if this will work or have any other suggestions?
thanks
sg

Hi SG,
Your plan will work. You will be able to use the existing drives as long as you bring them into the VM, restore the DPM DB and run
DpmSync. DPMSync will synchronize the DPM database with the replicas in the storage pool. Old link but still applies:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808877.aspx
Another thought...why not do a P2V on the DPM server vs. re-install? The only thing you will need to do/could run into issues with is bringing the disks into DPM once it is virtual.
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Virtual server can't attach internet service provider in physical computer

Hai all,
i'm new in here, i'm sory if my english is bad.
i have some question about virtual machine in hyper-v.
i have one machine installed windows server 2012 with 2 NIC. When i going to connect internet service provider to ether 1 in physical network it's success, but when i'm going to virtual server and want to attach internet service provider in physical network
to virtual network it's fail..
please help me,
Regards

Hi Endra,
I am assuming that you want the VM can access internet after hyper-v server connects to ISP .
Please try to follow these setps below :
1. create an internal virtual switch and connect the VM to it
2. open network and sharing center configure an IP for the new internal Vswitch
3. configure VM's IP (it should be in same subnet with the IP of new Vswitch )
4. configure the VM's gateway same as the IP of new internal Vswitch (after this the vm can ping the gateway , if it can not please try to check if the integration service was installed)
5. find the internet connection of hyper-v server , share it with the new Vswitch.
Accessing internet again from the VM.
Hope this helps
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Elton Ji
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