With vSphere 4, much of the documentation totes P2V conversions without any downtime... Could someone please explain this process to me? As far as I can tell, there still must be a time when no data is changing and the physical machine is not being used by anyone. Furthermore, you still need a time when the physical machine is shutdown and the VM is brought online.
It seems to me that you must do a P2V when the server is not in use, or during an outage. Otherwise there will be data changed on the physical machine that never gets converted to the virtual machine, correct?
I just want to be clear on this process and would like some confirmation that I'm not missing anything.
Thanks!