P2V Conversion on VMWARE - no logical volumes

[Anton Hofmann]

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As far as i know the vmware p2v converter ignores LVM.
I convert our systems with acronis true image, just make a image of your physical system and restore
it in a previous created vm on your esx.

Michael Ward schrieb:
> I recently converted a RHEL5 physical server to a virtual machine using
> vmware converter.
> 
> Everything ran fine however once I booted the virtual machine, I noticed all
> the logical volumes were gone on the
> 
> virtual machine. All the mounts are there but no logical volumes or volume
> groups.
> 
> Is there any way to preserve them? Logical Volumes are an important part of
> our systems.
> 
> I have tried the conversion using "preserve" and "LSI logic", neither of
> them preserve the logical volumes.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Ward
> 
> Redhat Linux Administrator
> 
> Metro State College of Denver
> 
> 303-352-4225
> 
>  
> 

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