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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

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Today we got a server from a company the client took over. It was an old server which was used to store scans from a multfunctional printer/scanner. This server needed to be P2V-ed to be used as an archive. The first shock was that it had 2 dongels connected. Luckily these dongels were for the licensing of the multifunctional which we no longer use. Then we found out the old hardware was far from stable, a cold clone resulted in an error indicating hardware trouble. So a collegue swapped all possible hardware in an attempt to create a functioning server which would live just long enough to P2V it. (more…)