P2P P2V V2V V2P or Clone RedHat /CentOS /Fedora /Ubuntu

Using dd Clone Server or P2P P2V V2V V2P

 Exactly same hardware.

 Different hardware.
 Virtual  Machian

In my case 2 HP ProLiant DL385, one server is year old and seen come to DC is it on from there we have clone using following.

HP ProLiant DL385 = studyhat.com which is in live for production.
HP ProLiant DL385 = new brought to DC we want to create clone of studyhat.com
We have created on XEN virtualization one clone of HP ProLiant DL385  

* Boot with Live CD's new server where you want clone.

* Give IP Address to eth0 .

* Ping to the server from where you want to clone.

* dd if=/dev/sda | ssh root@ipaddress "dd of=/dev/sdb"

* ssh <ipaddress of running server> 'dd if=/dev/sda' | dd of=/dev/sda

* ssh <ipaddress of running server> 'dd if=/dev/sdb' | dd of=/dev/sdb 

* # dd if=/dev/sda | ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (target ip address )'dd of=/dev/sda'

*#dd if=/dev/sda |gzip -c --fast| ssh root@target ip address 'gzip -d | dd of=/dev/sda'

* Once you get # <console> 

* #vi /etc/sysconfig/network

* #vi /etc/hosts /

* #vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

*  #vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

*    * #vi /etc/resolv.conf

*    * # reboot