SUMMARY When performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion to a clustered host with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, it may fail with the following error: Error 2927 A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %servername. (Unknown error (0x8033801A...

One of the questions that we often receive is how to perform a P2V on an older Windows 2000 server. The only way to accomplish this is to perform an Offline P2V where the source is restarted into the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) before VMM converts the physical disks to virtual hard disks...