P2V Conversion on VMWARE - no logical volumes
George Magklaras
georgios at biotek.uio.no
Thu Jun 11 17:21:26 UTC 2009
What does the output of pvscan give you and what's in /etc/fstab (now
and originally prior to the move)? You do get issues with LVM using
these sorts of tools and you might need to tweak a bit bootloader and
device mapper settings to get things to work.
GM
Michael Ward wrote:
> I recently converted a RHEL5 physical server to a virtual machine using
> vmware converter.
>
> Everything ran fine however once I booted the virtual machine, I noticed all
> the logical volumes were gone on the
>
> virtual machine. All the mounts are there but no logical volumes or volume
> groups.
>
> Is there any way to preserve them? Logical Volumes are an important part of
> our systems.
>
> I have tried the conversion using "preserve" and "LSI logic", neither of
> them preserve the logical volumes.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Ward
>
> Redhat Linux Administrator
>
> Metro State College of Denver
>
> 303-352-4225
>
>
>
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