SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process

physical-to-virtualscvmm

SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process?

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P.S. Destination is Hyper-V R2 Server.

Best Answer

SCVMM uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create an image of the source machine during the P2V process so it captures an image of the source at a single point in time. There is no option in SCVMM to force a synchronizaton of the source to the destination afterward. If you are trying to P2V a computer that changes a lot, you'll need to have some downtime and either turn off the source or stop all the services or IO.