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Otherwise, click “ A Remote Machine” and then enter the IP address and credentials for the source system.
- Select “ This Local Machine” if you want to migrate the physical machine to where VMware vCenter Conversion is installed.
- On Source System wizard, Select ‘ Powered-on Machine‘ from the drop down.
- Open the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and click on ‘ Convert Machine‘.
- P2V Cold Migration: The source machine must be powered off during the migration.
- But it is not recommended to do a p2v hot migration for AD and DB servers.
- P2V Hot Migration: The source machine will be in powered state during the migration.
- VMware vCenter Converter is capable of accomplishing the migration in two ways: Types Of Migration on vCenter Converter Standalone This is a desktop application that provides capability of import and export via the nice user interface on desktop application.
- Converter Standalone client: The Converter Standalone server works with the Converter Standalone client.
- Converter Standalone agent: It installs the agent on Windows source machines to import them as virtual machines.
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- Converter Standalone server: It enables and performs the import and export of virtual machines.
- The Converter Standalone application consists of mainly three components:
- Readjust volume sizes and place volumes on separate virtual disks.
- Perform migrations across heterogeneous hardware.
- Customize guest operating systems of virtual machines in the vCenter Server.
- Export virtual machines managed by vCenter Server hosts to other VMware virtual machine formats.
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- Import virtual machines hosted by VMware Workstation or Microsoft Hyper-V Server to ESXi hosts.
- Import running source physical and virtual machines as virtual machines to standalone ESXi hosts or to ESXi hosts that vCenter Server manages.
- You can use Converter Standalone to perform various types of conversion tasks.
- Free: This software comes free of cost and can be downloaded from VMware’s official site.
- It also supports the conversion of third-party virtual machines like Hyper-V and KVM.
- Interoperability: vCenter Converter supports many source physical machines, including Windows and Linux desktop and server editions.
- Management: It provides a centralized management console that allows you to queue up and monitor many simultaneous conversions, both local and remote, such as in head and branch offices.
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Simultaneous conversions enable large-scale virtualization implementations.
- Performance and Reliability: It converts local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any downtime.
- VMware vCenter Converter use cases and benefits