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P2V Exchange Conversion Failed; Looking for Disk to Disk Interim Backup

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So here's the Reader's Digest version of the story:

Our last server to be P2V was our Exchange Server, finally got around to setting up the task over the weekend, 14 hours later, it was all done. Shut down the physical, brought up the virtual. Boots into Windows to let me log in, then, just sits at a blue background screen of the desktop, but displaying nothing, explorer is running, but no task bar, I can launch Task Manager, shows all the correct services running, but can't do much.

Based on advice from here I shut down all Exchange and Forefront services before starting the P2V, the only thing I had to change was the current physical server was supporting 8 CPUs (Xeon X3440 Lynfield core (4 cores, 8 threads)). After conversion the VM wouldn't let me power it up unless I clocked it down to 4 due to some licensing or server restriction, not sure which as the bare metal server has dual Xeon E5640's in it. Anyway, that's the only thing I switched realizing the warning that modifying that setting can make a VM unstable, but I've done it before with no ill effects.

The only thing I didn't do was uninstall the HP Management Ethernet application, but I have a hard time believing that it could be causing this problem.

Anyway. The goal of moving the Exchange Server over to a VM was to include it in our Veeam backup schedule, I'll be the first to admit that this server was only suppose to be temporary three years ago, now its borderline scary that it hasn't given me any problems and I want to get a nice backup of it. Since I can't get it into Veeam yet (while I troubleshoot the above issue) what's a good Disk to Disk backup solution, maybe low cost, but that I might be able to push the backup to something (datastore, partitioned storage on our SAN, shared network drive, etc. although local storage is not a possibility as the server only has three bays and all are occupied). I thought about using Windows Backup Server on the 2008 R2 server where Exchange is installed, and pushing it to a USB hard drive, but I have about 1.4TB of data so that sounds like a lengthy push at USB 2.0 speeds.

Any recommendations?


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