Converting Physical Drives or Partitions to Vmware vmdk (P2V)

Note: This assumes you are trying to virtualize a Windows OS. What if you had a perfectly good working hard drive but the machine that was running it was dead, DOA, not working, or had been upgraded with a new hard drive and OS? Connecting that to a machine and getting the filesĀ is easy enough…

Backing up VM Server using the CLI

I do work for a company that has a VM Server with multiple hosts running on it. DNS, Mail, Web, these tasks generally work best on dedicated hosts so that when they go bump in the night they don’t take everything with it or complain when you have to reboot or restart services to fix…