CentOS 6 P2V alternatives?

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Hello all,

This week I've tested out a few ways to do a P2V on a rather ancient CentOS
6 server, in order to move it to a Hyper-V host.

So far my tests have failed rather spectacularly.
Initially I was set on doing a simple dd-routine, but was told that the
server cannot be taken off-line as it's being used daily, so had to look for
other solutions.

The disk setup is currently as follows:

Three 500 GB sata-disks, sda, sdb and sdc, are used to build a software raid
called md0. No LVM's here.

Sdd is a 120 GB drive, with partitions for boot, swap, home and /. 
No LVM's here either.

The farthest I've gotten is with the Rear solution. 
http://relax-and-recover.org/

The backup goes well, but recovery for some reason fails to create initramfs
with all the installed kernels, as well as failing with an error saying it
cannot find /boot/grub, after which the recovery terminates.

Virtualizing systems like this is kinda' new to me, having it done on
Windows only, and I'm not really sure
how to proceed when it's a CentOS system in question.

The physical CentOS-server runs a few license managers and nfs-shares that
server molecular modeling software, that are rather intricately set up (I
inherited this server some fifteen years ago).

Are there any easier ways to do a P2V at all?

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