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Physical Windows Servers are busy things – humming power supplies, drives and all sorts of components working together. They give you the data and applications you need, how and when you need them: but maintaining your physical servers and applications can require a lot of work and expense. Life can be a lot easier using P2V.<\/p>\n

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What is P2V<\/h2>\n

Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) is the process of transferring a physical server (its operating system, applications and data) to a virtual machine (VM) – a process known as virtualization.<\/p>\n

To understand virtualization<\/a>, and its advantages, it\u2019s best to start by looking at what the differences are between physical and virtual machines.<\/p>\n

A physical server<\/strong> has an operating system that runs applications like Exchange and shares resources such as files and printers. The server\u2019s operating system and applications have access to physical hard drives, memory, processors and network connections – all inside a physical box.<\/p>\n

A virtual machine<\/strong> emulates a physical computer by providing an environment that appears to have a dedicated disk\/s, processors and memory. The VM even has its own operating system installed. The VM is in fact running within a physical host server that can run multiple VM\u2019s and allocate resources to them. This is possible because the physical server is running VM host software, like Microsoft Hyper-V.<\/p>\n

Hyper-V<\/strong> is Microsoft\u2019s virtual machine solution. A Hyper-V host can create and maintain multiple virtual environments called guests.<\/p>\n

The advantages of P2V<\/h2>\n

The advantages of using a Hyper-V Server to virtualize your physical servers include:<\/p>\n