Choosing a virtualization environment for migrating win 2003 serv from physical to virtual server

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Dimarik2011-04-21 12:37:13

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Dimarik, 2011-04-21 12:37:13

There is a terminal server, which I already asked about setting up, thanks, everything works. Now I wanted to transfer it to a virtual server.
What do you advise? What system is better to put as a host? And as a guest? Ideally a free solution. Or paid but inexpensive.
One detail - you need a key to work - a usb key fob.

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centerv, 2011-04-21
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vmware esxi 4.1

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Ivan Tikhonov, 2011-04-21
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server, plus, again, a free tool from Russinovich - disk2vhd IMHO the easiest way. In any case, you can test it, if you don’t like something, then look towards vmware.

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pietrovich, 2011-04-21
@pietrovich

Microsoft Hyper-V Server, it's free and not as "capricious" as ESXi. Try it.

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omnimod, 2011-04-21
@omnimod

Think - does it make sense to raise a virtualization server for the sake of one virtual terminal server?
You will complicate your infrastructure, and at the same time get very few benefits, but you will lose performance due to overhead on the hypervisor and VM.
Also consider whether it makes sense to migrate a physical server, it might be better to deploy it from scratch in a virtual environment.