Cc4 virtualising the servers

[ful56_uk]

Hello

 

Just taken over a school running cc4, there servers are pretty oldish, is there anything on the rm servers or will I break anything rm related components if I do a p2v on to a esx environment backend?

[RowlandoGloom]

Hi,

 

We have 3 CC4 DCs running 2003R2.

 

About 18 months ago, we P2Vd them, VMware ESXi and have had no problems at all.

 

Paul.

[ful56_uk]

With or without the support of rm?

[RowlandoGloom]

Totally without the support from RM

[RowlandoGloom]

I think RM'd charged a fortune for doing it for you.

 

RM Support is there for CC4 as usual.

[ful56_uk]

Last question, as I don't normally deal with rm stuff, does doing that effect the support contact with rm?

[ful56_uk]

Yeah I do this with vanilla networks just wondered if there was any rm related issues. Thanks for your help

[RowlandoGloom]

No it doesn't affect support from RM, all support is still there, however if VMware had a problem, i.e. destroying data / RM software as a result, they wouldn't help (or charge to)

 

Ours runs as expected, and all support calls with RM are addressed as usual and the system works better than it did.

[RowlandoGloom]

Any time.

 

Paul

[oxide54]

No it doesn't affect support from RM, all support is still there, however if VMware had a problem, i.e. destroying data / RM software as a result, they wouldn't help (or charge to)

hmm which one is more likely to break? and be rushed out the door before its ready?

[RowlandoGloom]

Tbh I've had no problems at all, we're using 2 high spec. HP servers with a 4 TB NAS with everything spread across it with 9 VMs

 

All I would make sure you do, is check disk quotas in the RMMC once you have finished, as the size of the partitions will have increased etc.