Your Guide to Email Delegation With a Shared Inbox
Email delegation can reduce the burden on team members and spread the workload. Our guide to email delegation with a shared inbox will provide the answers.
Read nowI run a couple of servers over at a server farm. All of those machines run VMWare ESX, so today I wanted to move my last physical server to a VMWare image. If you want to convert a physical Windows machine then your task is quite easy. Start up the freely available VMWare Converter and start converting your physical machine to a virtual one. But what about when you need to convert a Linux server?
Since I really did not want to setup a new CentOS machine with all the packages I need and copying stuff from the physical to the virtual I did the following steps successfully. Keep in mind that this is on CentOS 5.2. I am sure this works for other Linux distributions as well.
Include any other directories that you need or have created. You should not need to include the “tmp” or the “lost & found” one. It is important to keep the permissions settings and this use the following command to create the tar;
tar czvfp physicalserver.tgz <directoriesabove>
(be prepared to make yourself some coffee in the meantime)
I have done the above steps with 3 servers and it has always worked without problems. But there are some post-reboot steps that you should do as well. They are;
With the above steps you should have a full copy of your physical server on your virtual machine environment. Let me know how it goes for you in the comments.
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