Dear Community,
I’m glad that I can request my issue to your behalf and thank you in advance for your effort.
This is the situation I’m stuck into:
Our Exchange 2007 Server on a Win2008 Server is still running as a physical
installation and needs to be migrated into the virtual infrastructure of VMware
and NetApp. The Mailbox databases such as the Logs files were already moved to
iSCSI LUNs on the NetApp via SnapManager for Exchange.
Server Disks look like this:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn GPT
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
0 Online 466 GB 0 B * (SW-Raid C:\ OS)
1 Online 466 GB 0 B * (SW-Raid C:\ OS)
2 Online 199 GB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
3 Online 25 GB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
4 Online 35 GB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
5 Online 15 GB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
6 Online 5020 MB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
7 Online 20 GB 0 B * iSCSI NetApp ISCSI LUN Exchange-DB
The VMware Host is running version 5.1 and the problem is that the Migration Assistant of
VMware moans that it cannot migrate the Disks that are known to Windows as GPT
partitions (all the iSCSI LUNs are GPT).
Since these GPT partitions (the Mail database LUNs) are already lying on the NetApp, I only
won’t to move the C:\ drive to my OS-Volume NFS on the NetApp and keep the iSCSI
targets passedthrough to the Guest OS….
I’m currently looking for a safe and inconvenient way to solve this problem.
Thanks for your Support and with kind Regards,
Michael