StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!
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@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
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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!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
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@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
We plan to. We are retiring most of the workloads. Clearly they've never been deemed production ready, why keep them?
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Active Directory is one of the workloads we are removing. AD for SIX people!
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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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Active Directory is one of the workloads we are removing. AD for SIX people!
What is authenticating against it?
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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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
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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!:
Active Directory is one of the workloads we are removing. AD for SIX people!
What is authenticating against it?
Users
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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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
They do, they don't have a way to easily extract the data from this system in a reasonably usable format without paying a fee.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
Active Directory is one of the workloads we are removing. AD for SIX people!
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@DustinB3403 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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
They do, they don't have a way to easily extract the data from this system in a reasonably usable format without paying a fee.
How do they have access and can't extract data. Access = ability to extract.
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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!:
@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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
They do, they don't have a way to easily extract the data from this system in a reasonably usable format without paying a fee.
How do they have access and can't extract data. Access = ability to extract.
In a usable format is the key.
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@DustinB3403 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!:
@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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
They do, they don't have a way to easily extract the data from this system in a reasonably usable format without paying a fee.
How do they have access and can't extract data. Access = ability to extract.
In a usable format is the key.
What format can it be in that is not usable? The data is in a database. You extra it as it is. While someone could be obfuscating the data, that's not realistic.
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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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
No one here knows how to extra the data - we do have access to the data - it's in MS SQL - so either I spend time learning how to do SQL things - taking away time from other duties and being super slow about it (ok well I did say we have plenty of time) or we pay someone who know what they are doing to learn how it all interconnects and then extract the data into some other usable format.
The usable format is likely the challenging part.
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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!:
@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!:
@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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
They do, they don't have a way to easily extract the data from this system in a reasonably usable format without paying a fee.
How do they have access and can't extract data. Access = ability to extract.
In a usable format is the key.
What format can it be in that is not usable? The data is in a database. You extra it as it is. While someone could be obfuscating the data, that's not realistic.
Scott - while handing you a MS SQL DB might allow you to access that data in some type of usable fashion - no one here is able to do so, including me.
we'd likely want the data exported into PDFs - one per patient.
Also - there is data in TIFs that are serialized, where the linking between TIF name and patient is in the DB - so that data would need to be pulled into the output PDFs as well. -
@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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
No one here knows how to extra the data - we do have access to the data - it's in MS SQL - so either I spend time learning how to do SQL things - taking away time from other duties and being super slow about it (ok well I did say we have plenty of time) or we pay someone who know what they are doing to learn how it all interconnects and then extract the data into some other usable format.
The usable format is likely the challenging part.
Someone is going to have to figure out how all the data relates. That's going to take time, even for someone who knows SQL.
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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.
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@travisdh1 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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
No one here knows how to extra the data - we do have access to the data - it's in MS SQL - so either I spend time learning how to do SQL things - taking away time from other duties and being super slow about it (ok well I did say we have plenty of time) or we pay someone who know what they are doing to learn how it all interconnects and then extract the data into some other usable format.
The usable format is likely the challenging part.
Someone is going to have to figure out how all the data relates. That's going to take time, even for someone who knows SQL.
Exactly. Do we have access to the data - yes.
Do we have a way to meaningfully access that data other than the vendor's provided application? - No
What would it take to get meaningful access to the data? - hire someone to learn to understand the current DB structure and create data exports - be it via a modern app accessing the current SQL DB, or via output to a PDF - either would likely be fine.
How much would this cost? - who the hell knows? -
@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.
They aren't - but I do have a contact that was in the support team, and DB support was one of his functions... I know he could do the export for me, again, no clue on what it would cost.
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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!:
@DustinB3403 said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:
So I know I'm barking up the correct tree, why can't you just remove these ancient OS's from the mix?
I'm not there yet - but I do have an EHR system that doesn't work on Windows 10. I have to keep the medical records for at least 10 years (and for children until they turn 23). We stopped using this EHR in 2013, which means I have to maintain it until at least 2023, and really could be until 2036 if we saw a newborn in the last year we had that system.
In late 2019 I'll be setting up a small network completely isolated just for access to this old system. Today I have a small amount of Win7 machines scattered around our practice, but soon enough it will be just one (yeah I could VLAN it, but meh, I'd really rather not).
No way to extract the data?
Of course there - for a fee. Ultimately we will end up likely extracting the children's data so we don't have to maintain it beyond 2013.
You don't have access to your own data without paying for it?
No one here knows how to extra the data - we do have access to the data - it's in MS SQL - so either I spend time learning how to do SQL things - taking away time from other duties and being super slow about it (ok well I did say we have plenty of time) or we pay someone who know what they are doing to learn how it all interconnects and then extract the data into some other usable format.
The usable format is likely the challenging part.
For legacy data, pulling it out into a document format is likely not very challenging.
