Physical to Virtual

[jpasint]

Good morning,

We currently have Voicemail Pro and IPO Manager installed on a small Dell server which we have some serious concerns for due to the fact the little rack server has no redundancy built into the hard drive or power supply. This Dell server is what our local vendor provided to us when our system was new.

We would like to convert the physical server to a virtual machine. We use Unitrends and it is real easy to do a physical to virtual.

I am curious if anyone else has done this and if any advice could be provided to bring up the virtual machine so that the IP Office 500 is unaware that any changes have occurred.

Thanks in advance as always.

 

[AACon]

Just keep the same IP and it'll be like it never happened, other than a possible hiccup during the change over - so just don't do it during business hours.
VMPRO is pretty easy to work with and a simple program, really. As long as it's an exact image, it'll be fine. I've had a customer do it before.

-Austin
I used to be an ACE. Now I'm just an Arse.

 

[DanACS]

As long as this is not an IP Office server edition with the IP500 as an expansion, yes you are fine as per AACon. (if it's a windows machine you are ok)

If it's a Server Edition the licencing will be wrong to migrate to a virtual environment

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[jpasint]

Thank you @AACon and @DanACS.