{"id":9312,"date":"2008-12-16T16:43:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2008-12-16T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"hp-server-p2v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9312","title":{"rendered":"HP Server P2V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying parts of doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!1598.entry\" target=\"_blank\">P2V of a HP Server<\/a> for me was removing the HP SIM components.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just found a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums11.itrc.hp.com\/service\/forums\/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1229445605717+28353475&amp;threadId=1127738\" target=\"_blank\">scripted solution on the HP forums<\/a> that takes care of this process for you.\u00a0 Apparently HP sells some software for the task &#8230; but why pay for something that someone has kindly provided a free script for?<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/forums11.itrc.hp.com\/service\/forums\/publicProfile.do?userId=CA935281&amp;forumId=1\"><em>Nelson Kaeppel<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying parts of doing a P2V of a HP Server for me was removing the HP SIM components.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just found a scripted solution on the HP forums that takes care of this process for you.\u00a0 Apparently HP sells some software for the task &#8230; but why pay for something that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HP Server P2V&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the most annoying parts of doing a P2V of a HP Server for me was removing the HP SIM components. 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