Over the weekend I was migrating our Harrogate Datacentre on to a HyperV Cluster, one of the 10 servers was a Windows 2000 Std box running RSA Server. Windows 2000 can only be P2V’ed offline as W2K does not support VSS. In prep for the migration I was trying to create the Virtuals prior to the move on the servers that were pretty static. However the W2K box just didn’t want to work, it would re-boot into winpe and then try and connect to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) but it timed out after 15 minutes. I tried several times but it just didn’t want to work.
Once I started converting the other servers I started to have a look at this problem in a bit more depth. lots of posts were mentioning about the source server being on the same network as the SCVMM, so I built a SCVMM on the same subnet as the W2K server (I was previously trying to P2V it across a WAN). once I had installed the SCVMM I tried to P2V that particular box and it worked.