Comment by nubinetwork
14 hours ago
Rather than converting the cold vm disk, couldn't you boot up the vm, dump the disks to stream, and send the streams into another format?
14 hours ago
Rather than converting the cold vm disk, couldn't you boot up the vm, dump the disks to stream, and send the streams into another format?
Yes, this is Microsoft's "agent-based migration" option mentioned in the article.
Agent based requires an insane amount of privileged accounts and I would say fails for 10%+ of the VM population
Try doing that to 3,000 production VMs.
Where do you work that a single sysadmin manages 3000 VMs?
Probably better to get the vm into a ramfs or any other way to not be currently on it. Otherwise it'll likely be pretty corrupted