V2P - for when you need to make the virtual - physical

Virtual to physical
Ref http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/doc/V2P_TechNote.pdf (This has been tested on W2K3 SP1Enterprise edition with 2 partitions )
Requirements:
HP Smartstart CD
HP PSP
Sysprep (http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/6/a267c18e-32d7-4e59-81e7-816c3b23cc29/WindowsServer2003-KB892778-SP1-DeployTools-x86-ENU.cab)
Acronis “Tru Image” (IEDUBESXHMLUNSW/Acronisboot/boot.iso)
Storage Drivers for the RAID controller card on the target physical drive
Sufficient storage to capture an image of the Virtual machine

Step 1 – Preparing the target physical machine

• Create target partitions to match the virtual machine Boot from Smartstart and create identically sized partitions To the source virtual machine.
• Ensure the server is available on the network
• Boot the server using acronis tru image Boot into Acronis tru image enterprise server

Step 2 – preparing the virtual machine

(take a VM snapshot before proceeding) • Create a directory on the C drive called c:\drivers\storage Copy the extracted storage drivers to this directory • Create a directory on the C drive called c:\Sysprep Extract the sysprep files to this directory
• Remove the VMware tools Add/remove programs – remove VMWare tools

Step 3 – Performing a sysprep

• Run c:\sysprep\setupmgr “Create new” → “sysprep Setup” → Select relevant OS→ “Yes , ….” Enter the correct info in the following … enter Product key 
Under the “additional Commands” enter the following command “c:\sysprep\sysprep –clean” next → Finish → OK
• Add a new path to the storage driver locations Open HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CurrentVersion add the following value to the Devicepath entry “;%systemdrive%\drivers\storage
• Modify the c:\sysprep\Sysprep.inf file to include the storage drivers Open the sysprep.inf file add the following section to the bottom of the file
[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_103C&DEV_3230&SUBSYS_3234103C = “c:\drivers\storage\hpcissx2.inf”,”\”Smart Array SAS/SATA Windows Driver Diskette”, “txtsetup.oem”
PCI\VEN_103C&DEV_3230&SUBSYS_3235103C = “c:\drivers\storage\hpcissx2.inf”,”\”Smart Array SAS/SATA Windows Driver Diskette”, “txtsetup.oem”
this config is applicable only if the destination system has a P400 RAID controller, if the system has a different controller you will obviously have to replace the hardware hardware ID and the driver name save the sysprep.inf file
P410i Controller uses the same driver set but requires the following line to be added to the bottom
of the sysprep.inf file
[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_103c&DEV_323A&SUBSYS_3245103C = “c:\drivers\storage\hpcissx2.inf”,”\”Smart Array SAS/SATA Windows Driver Diskette”, “txtsetup.oem”
5300 / 6400 controllers use the following config in the sysprep.inf file (obviously using the relevant 5300/6400 drivers)
[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B060 = “C:\Drivers\Storage\cpqcissm.inf”, “\”, “Smart Array 5x and 6x Driver Diskette”, “\TXTSETUP.OEM”
PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B178 = “C:\Drivers\Storage\cpqcissm.inf”, “\”, “Smart Array 5x and 6x Driver Diskette”, “\TXTSETUP.OEM”
PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_0046 = “C:\Drivers\Storage\cpqcissm.inf”, “\”, “Smart Array 5x and 6x Driver Diskette”, “\TXTSETUP.OEM”
(if you haven’t done it already – Take a snapshot) Open a command prompt on the physical machine and run the following command c:\sysprep\sysprep -pnp –forceshutdown OK → “reseal” → OK

Step 4 – Moving the image

Once sysprep has done its magic and the VM is powered down we need to take an image using acronis.

1. Edit the VM settings to point the CD drive to IEDUBESXHMLUNSW/Acronisboot/boot.iso (make sure that the device is set to “connect at power on”
2. Also in the VM settings , click the “options” tab , “Boot options” and set the delay to 10000 ms
3. Power on the Virtual machine from within the console (you need to see the VM boot up sequence because you have to force it to boot from CD)
4. In the Acronis startup manager – select “acronis true image echo enterprise server (full Version)”
5. Once the application has started up , select “backup” “My Computer” select all of the available disks and click “next”, Do not Exclude anything
6. Select the network location where you want to save the image (e.g \\iedubsrv56\servername$\servername.tib)
7. Next → next → next → proceed

At this point you want to delete the computer account from the domain

Step 5 – deploying the image to the physical machine

Assuming step1 has been completed , select Recovery
Browse to the location were you captured the image to
Click next , “restore disks or partitions” Select one disk at a time , putting each disk on the corresponding physical storage , If there is more than 1 disk , then you need to slect “yes , i want to….” at the end of the first disk import, repeat until all disks are selected and imported. Next → next → proceed
Remove the CD and boot up the server , follow the installation procedure (although the server is supposed to join the domain , it will most likely fail as the correct drivers will not be installed) Once the server has booted up , run the latest PSP and install the drivers Reboot , join the domain Reserve IP in DHCP and Statically Assign