My company is looking to turn 10+ physical servers into ~2 physical boxs onsite and a backup server at a co-op locatioin. We are looking to have our downtime to as close to 0 as possible and would like to have a snapshot of our physical servers placed onto a temporary machine to run durring the initial setup (as the DC is less than 5 months old and will be our primary VM server) until the DC snapshot can be placed onto the VM server.
What products are needed to have VM setup on a temp Win7 machine and be able to grab a snapshot of our physical DC (running 2008 R2) and run this snapshot durring the install of VM, then be able to transfer the snapshot to the VM server.
Paid, trials or free does not matter at this point
Any help is appreciated.