U R @ vSphere Admin's Space

It's a shame but I recently had to P2V a Windows 2000 server, part of our legacy services, in order to free up and decomm an old physical server. It was not a pleasure at all :( Planning 1) Download and keep VMware Converter 4.0.1 (VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.exe) – To P2V Windows 2000 P2V Converter 4.0.1 doesn’t support any vCenter/ ESXi later than 4.x. So I ended up in installing ESXi 4.0 on a VM running on top of my vSphere 6.5 infra! So 2) ESXi 4.0 ISO I read articles of people using VMware WorkStation for this, but in my case I didn’t want the export job to run outside datacentre, due to security reasons. My Windows 2000 Server that I need to virtualize is 200 Gig. So if you look at the disk size of ESXi VM, I made sure that It’s bigger than that.      3) Check Patch Level of Windows 2000 server and make sure > It’s updated to SP4 Rollup 1 ( KB891861 ) If not, install from here and reboot the server before running P2V job 4) Download and keep VMware Converter 6.0.0 (VMwa