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disc2vhd - application aware processing fail

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Has anyone any problems with P2V virtual machines and application aware processing?
I have virtualized a few machines with the disc2vhd from sysinternals, but on those virtual machines the application aware processing fail if i enable. This happens in separated enviroments too with different Vms. It is 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 VMS.

I also have a open case on this try to troubleshooting if it could be related to VSS, but so far no good after about a week with troubleshooting.
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Re: disc2vhd - application aware processing fail

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anyone seen the same behavior? Been working with the veeam support team for 3 months on the issue, but we still cant find out what is causing this.
I can also reproduce this by doing a disk2vhd for 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 operatingsystems.
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Re: disc2vhd - application aware processing fail

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Can you please try any other tool to convert physical server to virtual? That would help to isolate the issue to either disc2vhd or to converted VMs themselves.
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Also because I've run a ton of P2V using VMware Converter for example and I've never had any problem with the final VM I created.
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Re: disc2vhd - application aware processing fail

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Thanks, I will definelately try to do p2v with vmware converter, I remember I have used that before. Dont know why I started to use the disc2vhd, but since I am facing the issue I have no choise to leave it. :)

Unfortunelately this will not help my existing few clients I have P2V since they have been running on these VMs for a couple of months now.

Hopefully the veeam support team will find out what could cause this eventually. It is pretty simple Vms with Exchange, so I have enabled circular logging for now to maintenance the logs, but in the length it is not an optimal solution in case the db should be corrupted and I cannot rollback the logs.
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While support team is investigating, you can stick to crash consistent backup. I believe that almost anyone agrees that crash consistent backup is better that no backup at all. Thanks.
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