{"id":80,"date":"2011-09-29T06:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raykain.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:15:48","slug":"2008-r2-to-xenserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"2008 R2 to XenServer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work I was\u00a0bouncing\u00a0my head of the desk for about a day and a half on converting a Windows 2008 R2 server sitting on a Dell Power Edge M610 over to XenServer 5.6 SP2. \u00a0Here is what I used to finally get everything working.<\/p>\n<p>1. Ran Disk2VHD from SysInternals (<a title=\"Disk2VHD\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/ee656415\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a>) Make sure to take both the OS and the System partition are selected and Hit convert<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Used XenConvert 2.3.1 x64 (I have tried 2.4.1 x64 but it doesn&#8217;t have the option to take a VHD to XenServer) Select Source as VHD and Select XenServer as your destination. Fill out the rest of the information.<\/p>\n<p>3. Booted the Server with the windows 2008 R2 CD<\/p>\n<p>4. Select the Repair option<\/p>\n<p>5. Select CMD<\/p>\n<p>6. Change the Directory to &#8216;recovery&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>7. Run &#8216;StartRep.exe&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>8. Reboot<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0resolved\u00a0my issues and we were then able to use this server after everything was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work I was\u00a0bouncing\u00a0my head of the desk for about a day and a half on converting a Windows 2008 R2 server sitting on a Dell Power Edge M610 over to XenServer 5.6 SP2. \u00a0Here is what I used to finally get everything working. 1. Ran Disk2VHD from SysInternals (Link) Make sure to take both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,13,19,22],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-citrix","tag-p2v","tag-xenconvert","tag-xenserver-5-6-sp2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16FBG-1i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}