Tony Soper has blogged another gem - a whitepaper called “Virtual Server 2005 – IDE to SCSI Virtual Machine Migration” from Nelson Araujo.  Thanks Nelson!

The 8 page whitepaper is a walkthrough to migrate your VMs from IDE to SCSI bus.  Most commonly when migrating from Virtual PC to Virtual Server (using the SCSI vhds is about 20% faster)

You can download the whitepaper and an outline is below:

  • Preparing for Migration
  • Backing up the virtual machine
  • Enabling Undo Disks
  • Preparing the Guest Operating System
  • Installing a SCSI Adapter
  • Changing the drive from IDE to SCSI
  • Changing the disk boot order
  • Booting the Operating System SCSI disk
  • Performance Fine Tuning