While reading some documents from Anne Jan and Erik about migrations of physical machines by means of P2V I noticed there was information about the ports that are being used for this migration:

• Physical machine to the converter server port 443
• Converter server to physical machine ports 445 and 139
• Converter server to vCenter server port 443

• Converter client to converter server port 443
• HTTP port 80
• SOAP port 9085
• Web port 9086

The information I was missing though was about the services that are beeing used when migrating a Windows physical machine:

• Workstation service
• Server service
• TCP/IP  Netbios helper
• VMware  Converter service (which will become available on the physical machine when the converter client is pushed)
• Volume Shadow Copy service (Windows XP, Windows 2003 server)

Most of the times these services are running. But when having problems with a P2V migration be sure to check out these services.

On a personal note: I’m happy I could help them to create even better documents

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Tags: Migration, P2V

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