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in our organization, I have 2 servers, and its critical servers. and the hardware is old also. I want to convert the server OS to a Virtual machine. (hyper v ). Hyperv is running in our organization. please suggest me better possible solutions.

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You need to have the physical server converted into a VHD file using Disk2VHD , the physical server will not be affected , then you load this VHD file into the virtual machine that you create .

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You should be able to use ms virtual machine converter to do a p2v.

MS being the muppets they are discontinued the product but the download is still on the way back machine and still works pretty good.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200611215113if_/https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/E/91E9F42C-3F1F-4AD9-92B7-8DD65DA3B0C2/mvmc_setup.msi

Manual

https://web.archive.org/web/20200803210502if_/https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/E/91E9F42C-3F1F-4AD9-92B7-8DD65DA3B0C2/MVMC_cmdlets.doc

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What are you using as a backup solution. Most can restore a physical backup as a VM nowadays, retore to hyper-v, test (in sandbox environment), then shutdown the physical

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What do the machines do? If the hardware is old, then the OS is probably old too. This sounds like a good time to upgrade hardware and the OS, in which case you should be doing a migration. If you don’t know how to migrate data and services to a new server, ask on the forums or hire someone.

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Last time I did this I used StarWind V2V Converter. You might want to take a look at it.

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Thanks for mentioning StarWind.

Hey @talk2suneep ,

As mentioned, you can use StarWind V2V Converter to convert you physical servers to a VM. V2V Converter will allow you to perform conversion directly to a Hyper-V VM. Check our help for the guidance: StarWind V2V Converter Help : Convert physical machine to remote Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Feel free to DM me whether you have any questions regarding the conversion.