Let's all be thankful for insomnia, or we might not have this great article!  If you want to get another interesting look at how to P2V, head on over to OZ VMS dot com and check out his latest post. 

Because he couldn't sleep (sorry about that by the way, I hope you eventually were able to catch some Z's), he was able to help out the community by sharing his methodology and processes for creating a virtual machine from a physical server. 

Using an image of a physical server created with Acronis True Image, a helper VM containing the tool set needed, VMware's P2V software, and a little know-how on his part, he walks us through the process and leaves us with this final thought...

"Don't expect that if a server is running badly that virtualising will fix it. Always remember a poorly configured physical server will be a poorly configured virtual server" - an unknown yet wise VMware person.

Check out the article, here.