Conversion of physical computers to virtualized environments method and system

A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon, computer executable instructions that, if executed by a computer system cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

• initiating a new incremental physical to virtual conversion process;
• analyzing a history of a plurality of prior incremental conversions to determine whether there exists at least one prior incremental conversion that failed;
• upon determination that a prior failed incremental conversion occurred, determining a correct chronological order of the plurality of prior incremental conversions;
• determining an original failure point and any subsequent failure points;
• and
• re-applying the prior incremental conversions from each of said original failure point and said subsequent failure points in the correct chronological order with the most recent incremental conversion re-applied last.

A volume conversion system, comprising:

• a computer system having a processor coupled to a computer readable storage media and executing computer readable code which causes the computer system to implement a conversion manager module, wherein the conversion manager module:
• initiates a new incremental physical to virtual conversion process;
• analyzes a history of a plurality of prior incremental conversions to determine whether there exists at least one prior incremental conversion that failed;
• upon determination that a prior failed incremental conversion occurred, determines a correct chronological order of the plurality of prior incremental conversions;
• determine an original failure point and any subsequent failure points;
• and
• re-apply the prior incremental conversions from each of said original failure point and said subsequent failure points in the correct chronological order with the most recent incremental conversion re-applied last.