I was recently asked to create a short video detailing some of the new features of vSphere 4. This also led to a blog entry on our website. The Content of that article is contained below.

I was recently installing VMware Server 2 on my Windows 2003 host and came across an error 1718 during the installation. I also found in the release notes from VMware that this is a known issue with a known fix. Worked for me.

Microsoft KB reference and solution
VMware Server 2 release notes

I have completed dozens of P2V migrations for various clients and have to walk down the same path each time. One of these days I will get around to scripting some of this stuff, but wanted to at least highlight the steps I take here. I do all of this work on the new VM, despite that it could be done on the physical server before doing the migration. If you do that though, you lose the ability to roll back to the physical server as a failback. I would rather do the work on the VM knowing I can always simply power up the physical box. Steps below: