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P2V ADMIN ISO : Bundle of Free Tools for your End to End P2V Migrations

P2V ADMIN ISO is an ISO image which has a bundle  of free tools which will help you to complete your end to end  P2V migrations and also helps to troubleshooting failed migrations. P2V Admin ISO helps you perform your P2V migration from the initial phase(Inventory collection scripts, Defragmentation, to till completion of the migrations(cleanup tools,disk alignment and disk expansion tools) . It also contains disk related tools which will help you to clone your physical disk, also perform manual data copy in case of failed p2v migration due to some bad disk blocks. Each folder contains Readme file about the procedure. This ISO image is just a bundle of various software’s and all the credits goes to the vendor who developed the products. I have personally used all this tools to complete my P2V migrations.
You can simply attach the ISO image to your converted VM and use the tools whichever needed based on your requirement. 
Below are the tools which are packaged as part of  P2V-ADMIN ISO v1.0 (620 MB):
  • 01 – Disk Defragmentation Tools
    • Page Defrag
    • Smart Defrag
    • AusLogics Disk Defrag 
  • 02 – Disk Alignment Tools
    • Guest Reclaim
    • UBERAlign 
  • 03 – Controller Floppies & Drivers
    • VMtools
    • VMxnet Driver
    • BusLogic SCSI
    • LSI Logic 
  • 04 – Disk Clone Tools
    • Snapshot_2003
    • Snapshot_2008
    • Disk2vhd
    • RawCopy
    • XXClone 
  • 05 – Drive Expansion Tool
    • ExtPart 
  • 06 – File Copy Tools
    • RichCopy
    • FastCopy
    • RoboCopy
  • 07 – P2V Cleanup Tools
    • Devcon
    • HP Prolient Cleaner
    • Remove Non Present Devices 
  • 08 – P2V Inventory Scripts
    • DiskUsage_report.ps1
    • ServerInfo_Report.ps1 
  • 09 – Sysprep Files
    • Win2k
    • Win2k3_Sp1_x86
    • win2k3_sp2_x64 & winxp_x64
    • Win2k3_SP2_x86 & win2k3R2
    • WInxp_prowinxp_Pro_SP3_Sp2
    • winxp_Pro_SP3 
  • 10 – PSTools
    • PsExec, Psfile ,PSGetsid, PsInfo, Pskill, PsLoggedon , Psloglist, Pspasswd, Psping, PsService, Psshutdown and PsSuspend 
  • 11 – Admin Password Reset Tool
    •  Offline NT Windows Password & Registry Editor 
  • 12 – Folder to ISO Converters
    • AnytoISO
    • Folder2Iso
    • MagicISO 
  • 13 – SQL Management Studio
    • SQL Management Studio 2005
    • SQL Management Studio 2008 
  • 14 – USB_Bootable Tools
    • Unetbootin
    • Rufus 
  • 15 – vSphere Client (Thinapped)
    • VMware_vSphere_Client_4_1_u1
    • vSphere50_u1_Fling 
  • 16 –  Analysis & Troubleshooting
    • FileCompare
    • HD_Speed
    • PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs)
    • Process Explorer
    • TCPView
    • VMClient
    • VMPerfmon
    • VMTime
    • WireShark 
  • 17 –  Miscellaneous Tools
    • BGinfo
    • CHKCPU
    • NewSID
    • ShellRunas
    • Virtual Guest Console
    • WINSCP
    • Genuine Check
    • Putty
    • TreeSize
    • Uptime 
  • 18 –  Document Readers
    • Portable PDF Reader
    • Portable Office
  • 19–  VMware Converter Standalone (Shortcut for Download link)
    • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone_4.0 
    • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone_5.0
    • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone_5.1
    • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone_5.5
  • 20– Starwind v2v Converter (Shortcut for Download link)
    • Starwind v2v converter
Not all the tools are used at converted virtual machine. So i have included both ISO image and ZIP file for Users convenient. Click on Download to get this P2VADMIN ISO
                                                

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I hope P2V ADMIN ISO will definitely help you to complete your migrations successfully.  Thanks for Reading !!!. Be social and share it in social media if you feel worth sharing it.
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