Don’t just P2V that server for Testing!

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Published on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:58:02 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/21 3:14 UTC
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If you use virtualization in your company, at some point in time you might be tempted to perform a Physical-To-Virtual conversion, also known as P2V.  The ability to create a complete working copy of a physical server as a virtual machine is really useful for migrating to a virtualized datacenter, but it can also wreak havoc in your environment if you use it to generate a copy of a server for testing and the only change you make is the name of the server.  The Problem: Consider that you...(read more)

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