StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!
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@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Yeah, @Dashrender would be best to just pay the original developer to extract the data (if they are still around).
SQL Admins can quickly get to the data and export a copy of the SQL database (I know how to do that even though I don't do it often).
But opening the database and doing the exports like you're asking would require some programming to create a connection to the database.
There are built in tools for doing exactly that.
What do you mean built in tools?
SQL manager allows you to export the database.
That's useless! I have direct DB access. I can go pawing through the data right now. But what I need is reports from that data - patient records made from that data, etc. so simply having the data is pointless.
Not exactly pointless, just not enough on its own.
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It'd be helpful to know what EHR it is, there may already be queries out there to do things like get the right associated data. It's not that complex. With the right information it could be fairly quick, but without any information it may require doing things like logging the queries and looking up patients to see how the information is joined and/or what different tables are queried. Even doing this near-black-box you can gain a lot of information, you don't need to necessarily just reverse engineer the entire schema if you can see how it's being used. I've done this plenty of times with MS SQL Server and EHRs and ERMs who have no APIs or documentation.
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@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Yeah, @Dashrender would be best to just pay the original developer to extract the data (if they are still around).
SQL Admins can quickly get to the data and export a copy of the SQL database (I know how to do that even though I don't do it often).
But opening the database and doing the exports like you're asking would require some programming to create a connection to the database.
There are built in tools for doing exactly that.
What do you mean built in tools?
SQL manager allows you to export the database.
SQL Server Management Studio allows you do do things.
Exporting a database is not one of them.
You can backup a database. That does you no good. The data is still the data.
You can Generate Scripts and include the data. This again, does you no good. The data is still the data.
You can use SQL Server Integration Services to create an export package, table by table. This again does you no good, as the data is still locked into the various tables it was in.
Exactly. What I need is - patient calls up and says - I want copies of my medical records. we have to generate those medical records from the DB - which the app does for us today. But the app won't run on Windows 10, so we are stuck with windows 7. I might be able to get lucky and actually move the server side to Windows server 2019 with SQL 2019, but the browser calls are locked into IE.
My thought is if this was to be done, you'd make a "patient to document" script, list the patients, run it and create one document per patient that can be stored in any filesystem in read only mode. Hard? Maybe. But that's the basic idea. Get to a "minimum common denominator" that you can just print out and be done with.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
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@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
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@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
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@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
Correct. Fedora 29 with KVM.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
Correct. Fedora 29 with KVM.
If I could ever get some more time around here, I would spin up KVM on an older R710.
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@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
Correct. Fedora 29 with KVM.
If I could ever get some more time around here, I would spin up KVM on an older R710.
We have that exact server being pulled out of service at the site where we are putting in KVM!!
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@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
Correct. Fedora 29 with KVM.
If I could ever get some more time around here, I would spin up KVM on an older R710.
I'm going to be setting up that DL385 G7 in my lab like this.
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@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@wrx7m said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Only for Windows...
Supported Operating Systems are: desktop versions starting from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and all server versions starting from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2016
About to do a P2V for a company, but this won't help because nothing they run is this new.
Microsoft doesn't have a P2V for Hyper-V?
We aren't using Hyper-V
What are you using?
KVM would be my guess
Correct. Fedora 29 with KVM.
If I could ever get some more time around here, I would spin up KVM on an older R710.
I'm going to be setting up that DL385 G7 in my lab like this.
Nice unit for a lab
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@mlnews it's not to shabby. It previously has ESXi 5.0.0
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
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@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.
With a script, you're right - I'm not looking to hire someone to make said script at this time.
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@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.
With a script, you're right - I'm not looking to hire someone to make said script at this time.
You mean doing it manually? That'll likely take a really long time.
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Back on track...I had to P2V a server 2003 (non R2 even) recently. I shut down all unnecessary services and used DSK2VHD to do the initial conversion then had to clean up the boot.ini file to get the partitions right. I was going to Hyper-V so no problem with the disk format.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.
With a script, you're right - I'm not looking to hire someone to make said script at this time.
You mean doing it manually? That'll likely take a really long time.
Well - the report will tell us how many patients we have, then management can make the determination if they want to hire someone to script it all - or just do it manually.
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@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?
No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.
This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.
Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.
The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.
The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.
we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.
Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.
I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.
Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.
Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.
With a script, you're right - I'm not looking to hire someone to make said script at this time.
You mean doing it manually? That'll likely take a really long time.
Well - the report will tell us how many patients we have, then management can make the determination if they want to hire someone to script it all - or just do it manually.
Any idea how long manually takes? Is that like just taking a screen shot of the current output?
