P2V Migration Timings
Based on my personal experience, and on a couple of surveys I carried out a few months back, most customers physical machines (Windows 2003 or below) fall into three categories, i.e. machines that are typically 10 GB in size, machines that are 20 GB – 40GB in size, and machines that are 110 GB in size.
Based on that data here are the actually approximate timings (albeit estimated):
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1GB
available bandwidth
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35% of machines
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55% of machines
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10% of machines
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10 GB
actual data
(includes OS)
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Between
20GB – 40GB
actual data
(includes OS)
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110 GB
actual data
(includes OS)
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Pre/Post Migration activities 2 hours
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Pre/Post Migration activities 2 hours
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Pre/Post Migration activities 2 hours
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Migration and conversion times estimated at 28 minutes
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Migration and conversion times estimated at between 30 – 35 minutes
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Migration and conversion times estimated at 55 minutes
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Total time approximately 2 hours 28 minutes
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Total time approximately 2 hours 35 minutes
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Total time approximately 2 hours 55 minutes
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Note that the data above is not based on SCVMM 2008 (since I have never had to time the process) but on PlateSpin Migrate.
Patrick Lownds