How do I do a physical to virtual conversation of Windows Server 2008?

[riahc3]

Hello

I know Veeam can do physical to virtual conversions using the Veeam Agent.

The thing is the documentation says it supports Windows Server 2008 R2, nothing Windows Server 2008.

Is there any other to do this using Veeam?

[karsten123]

maybe inplace to R2, first?

[Fredlas]

Hello

I know Veeam can do physical to virtual conversions using the Veeam Agent.

The thing is the documentation says it supports Windows Server 2008 R2, nothing Windows Server 2008.

Is there any other to do this using Veeam?

With regular Windows Server 2008, you can try creating a full backup using the older Veeam Agent (if you still have the installation), then restore to the virtual machine.

[riahc3]

maybe inplace to R2, first?

Cant

[riahc3]

With regular Windows Server 2008, you can try creating a full backup using the older Veeam Agent (if you still have the installation), then restore to the virtual machine.

Ive tried to look for the oldest Veeam agent that was compatible with Windows Server 2008 but I cant find it. Do you know the version?

[ChrisRoad]

As far as I can remember, there was never a Veeam Agent that supports Server 2008
When Veeam released their first version of the Agent, Server 2008 R2 was already the oldest version of Windows it supported.

Anyway, I wanted to chime in here, as I've just performed such a P2V conversion of a very old Windows Server 2008 system last week.
Here are my 2 cents on that topic.

In the end I've used an older version (6.2.0-8466193) of the VMWare Converter that I could still install on this server. (newer ones all failed)
I've only installed the "Agent" component of VMWare Converter, as the "Server" component failed to install as well and without that, the "Client" is not needed anyway.
Server and Client got installed on a different and new Windows system and from there I started the whole P2V conversion process.

Btw. I had to upgrade this Windows Server 2008 VM to R2 anway after the conversion, as I was required to re-activate Windows again. (new hardware and so)
And somehow I was not able to do that with Windows 2008, the automatic way after entering the Activation Key failed I did not get to point where I could perform the manual telephone activation.
With Server 2008 R2 this manual way worked, though it's way more painfully and slow now, with the new KI system that Microsoft uses for that telephone activation process.....