P2V Clean-up: What things need to be done?

Deathmage

Hi all,

So yesterday I learn something from the other tech in regards to P2V, in the sense that you need to remove all the old drivers from the device manager. Besides the device manager 'clean-up', what other things should I do after a P2V conversion to the VM? - I don't recall reading about this in my studies so I'm curious.

netsysllc

yes remove any hardware that is not longer there from device manager, the network card most importantly it will be hidden so follow this Device Manager does not display devices that are not connected to the Windows XP-based computer. Also if there is any oem or other hardware monitoring software such as raid monitoring and such.

joelsfood

Our regular cleanup includes (and won't apply to all):

Removal of Dell Openmanage and all components
Removal of ATI video drivers
Removal of Intel nic driver suite
Removal of HP Openview and all components
Removal of DPM guest based backup (we use Veeam on the hosts instead) and old restore points
Removal of any old hardware that no longer exists
Removal of extraneous CD, Floppy, etc that no longer exit
Removal of HD audio device (if you P2V'd into workstation and then moved to ESXi)

I think tha'ts about it. That's our regular P2v from physical Dell servers to Vsphere VMs. Prior to conversion:
Create (or confirm password) of local admin account (to allow logging in after P2v when network doesn't come up)
ipconfig /all >c:\IPs.txt to document any and all network settings prior to P2V

Deathmage

Thanks guys, will add this to my brain in isle 56900 next to the leave the seat up rule...

joelsfood

haha, exactly where it belongs.

One I did forget is changing the MAC address in Windows if required for software licesning, etc. That's something else the IPconfig /all saves and documents for you.

Deathmage

joelsfood wrote: »

haha, exactly where it belongs.

One I did forget is changing the MAC address in Windows if required for software licesning, etc. That's something else the IPconfig /all saves and documents for you.

koodos!