We're starting to virtualize some of our HW servers. We're using a backup product called Dell AppAssure and porting the image to virtual from their backup snapshot.
I know this isn't a Dell forum, but what is happening is that the snapshot is taken with certain registry settings shich point to the local boot device. Obviously when the image becomes virtual, that HW is gone. There is a KB article from Dell which describes a way to boot to recovery, load the registry hive, modify some registry keys like so..
intelide = 0
pciide = 3
LSI_SAS = 0
https://support.software.dell.com/appassure/kb/120315
etc..
My question to you guys is this. Is there some way for me to prep a server before hand, so that when I take a snapshot of it and migrate it, it won't blue screen. Maybe some kind of prep tool. I'm guessing there are lots of products for P2V migrations alone, but I can't take these servers down which is why using a backups snapshot is more attractive.
Thanks,