Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:50:41 ServerAlex wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm looking for an easy way to migrate a linux physical server to a > vmware server without big interruptions. > Unfortunatly I don't have DRBD running on the physical machine yet, > but I want to setup it on a block device that contains the root > filesystem with meta-disk = ramdrive. Is it possible to do that > without unmouting the filesystem (lvm+ext3)? > The target is just to replicate the data to the new server, so I can > shutdown the old one and boot the new one afterwards with almost no > downtime. > VMware vCenter Converter doesn't seem to support this. It just copies > the disk with no respect to modifications that occured while the > migration process is running, which is bad. > > Can I do that with DRBD, and if possible, how? > If not, are there any other common ways to archive that? > > Greets, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2006-April/004832.html