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01-15-2018

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Virtualization a bare metal SCO Open Server 6?

Hello,

We have a SCO Open Server 6 running on bare metal hardware, this is used for a legacy application that we continue to need.

I would like to migrate/virtualize the SCO server into VMware so that I can do VM level backups, etc.

I did test to make sure SCO 6.0 can run in VMware/ESXi and it seems to work fine, I did a new ISO install and all runs stable.

What I need to do is some sort of P2V because we need to preserve the application that is running on the bare metal hardware (we have no install media or instructions for this app - super legacy).

Has anyone done a P2V for SCO6? I read somewhere we can use MicroLite's BackupEdge but seems it only supports SCO6 that is already running within a VMware environment. I also found a few threads suggesting booting to a Linux distro and using tools like "dd" or "ghost" do clone the disk.

Trying to figure out the best method to approach this, would be very interested in some real world examples of users doing this and how they went about it?

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