Migrate to new Virtual machine on VMware

Hi,
One of our SAP system(SOLMAN) is on KVM. We are in the process of retiring KVM and moving it to a VM on VMware. We are planning to do a Virtual 2 Virtual (V2V) copy to move this instance to VMware. After the migration nothing changes including OS, SID, IP and hostname. We have a distributed installation with Apps and db on seperate hardware. This move is only for the Apps. The DB remain as it is and is on a physical server, not a VM.
My question is, whether a V2V copy method is supported by SAP for productive operation, or do we have to do the traditional SAP migration ? Do we get support from SAP if somthing goes wrong after the migration ?
Is there a need for a certified consultatnt to perfomr this kind of harware migration ?
Our SOLMAN (701) is on Red Hat Linux (RHEL 5.4) with oracle database( 10.2.0.4).
Appreciate your help and thoughts on this issue.
Regards

During the planning phase, thing s got changed and now the direction is to move both Apps and database servers to VM.
So would V2V still work for both of these ?
I have read in forums to d a clean install of OS and then to perform a system copy procedure to be safe for this kind of migration. Clean instal of OS is for avaoding any device driver issues that may arise due to V2V, sicne the hardware differs from source to target. Any comments on this approch ?
Also, I would like to keep the hostname and IP of the target same as the source, to avoid any integration issue aftert the migration. How can I achieve this ?
Are there any other methods to do this migration, facilitating a testing pahse of the target system and minimal downtime during the cutover ?
Thansk

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we could use the MBR format which allows XP mode. Then we also formatted the original HDD of 500GB in MBR, and decided to run it with Intel RST. This second drive is for unimportant data, and large files. For backup we chose a 2TB USB 3.0
external. In this setting, installing Windows XP Mode was easy, as the only thing we needed to do was modify BIOS to enable virtualization which was part of the Intel 2x E5-2620 chipset already.
I am very pleased with XP Mode. The scientific writing software for my thesis that I was worried about does actually run in Windows 7 under compatibility mode, but there have been some huge advantages to installing in in XP Mode as well. I still have licensed
copies of Office 2003, Acrobat Pro 9, and MathType 5.2, and other old software as well. I now have all new software, for example Office 2010 (64-bit), Acrobat Pro 10 (32-bit for 64-bit), and MathType 6.8 (64-bit), and lots of other things. However, now that
I have my scientific wrtiting software (for which the maker has not caught up with Windows Vista/7) installed in XP Mode, I have also installed WORD 2003 with MathType 5.2 in XP Mode. My scientific writing software can translate WORD 2003/MathType 5.2 in RTF
format to LaTeX. So lets hope these guys eventually catch up with Windows 7 and 8.
I am also using XP Mode to archive a large block of my old data from the XP days. I still have licensed copies of the out of date software. And I would rather not update every single old file I have to a current format. So altogether, XP Mode is working
out quite well. It is very fast with my Intel 2x E5-2620 and maximum RAM.
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Move Exchange 2013 installation to new virtual machine

Currently have: 1 virtual server - Server 2012 (DC, Global Catalog), Exchange 2013 CU1 installation (yes I know- dont install Exchange on DC etc etc ... ). Server2012/Exchange2013 is installed on one VMDK, EDB and logs are saved on another VMDK.
Want to do: Create second virtual machine and install Server 2012 (different name), add it as a member to the same domain (also in the same network), install Exchange 2013, move all mailboxes to the new server, uninstall the old Exchange 2013.
Question is- is it possible to somehow unmount the existing database (I am only using one database for mailboxes and public folders) and mount it to the new server or do I have to create a new database on the new server and move the mailboxes there? I've
heard that the Exchange EDB databases were supposed to be portable between same versions of Exchange.
Any advice is appreciated.

Hi,
Agree with Andy, to avoid down time, we can depend on database portability.
And here are the steps you can refer to:
1. Install new Exchange server on the member server.
2. Move Mailbox Database using Database Portability:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876926(v=exchg.150).aspx
3. Move the public folders (if any), re-home the offline address book, and move your SMTP connectors
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822931
4. Remove the old Exchange server.
Thanks,
Angela Shi
TechNet Community Support
Thanks for the reply.
I'm a bit confused on the instructions from
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876926(v=exchg.150).aspx- does step 4 instruct me to overwrite the newly created database (on the new server) with the old database and then mount it on the new server? Also, as the public folders are now in
a mailbox on the same database- aren't they moved with the database without extra hassle?
Also the link you gave me in Step 3 in your post refers to Exchange 2003.
Thanks in advance.

Starting virtual machine in VMware Fusion disables bluetooth

When I connect to a virtual machine (winXP), I get an error message in OSX, and the bluetooth icon greys out. I can't get bluetooth back to work unless I reboot.
Powering down the virtual machine doesn't help.
Even the bluetooth icon in system preferences is gone then, like I don't have a bluetooth anymore.
I'm on a MBP.
Any ideas?

Go to the VM Fusion forum which is where support for the product is available.

Can't create new virtual machine with Virt-manager

After going through the whole setup, I would get this error through backtrace:
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/netlist.py", line 346, in validate_network
netobj.start()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/network.py", line 104, in start
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2755, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virNetworkCreate() failed', net=self)
libvirtError: Unable to create bridge virbr0: File exists
Hence, I attempted to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bridge_with_netctl to set up my network bridge and try again, and I'd still get the same error.
I also tried to do sudo virt-manager but I'd get:
** (virt-manager:16835): WARNING **: Could not open X display
No protocol specified
(virt-manager:16835): Gdk-ERROR **: error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
I want to get KVM working using a gui and so I choice virt-manager, but now I'm stuck and don't know where to go from here.

Hi Sir,
Please follow these troubleshooting steps mentioned within the article below :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2012/08/13/kb-how-to-troubleshoot-the-needs-attention-and-not-responding-host-status-in-system-center-2012-virtual-machine-manager.aspx
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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