Elias leaned back in his chair, exhaling a breath he felt he’d been holding for three hours. In the rack, the physical Dell server finally gave up the ghost; its fans spun down with a final, exhausted whine. The room fell into a peaceful silence.
A progress bar appeared. Transferring data: 5%... vmware converter standalone
80%... Elias’s heart hammered in his chest. He considered pulling the plug and restoring from an old backup, but he knew the backup was a week old. The client would lose a week of payroll data. Elias leaned back in his chair, exhaling a