You can automate and simplify physical to virtual machine conversions as well as conversions between virtual machine formats with VMware vCenter Converter.It has a intuitive user interface using which any physical or virtual machine can be converted to vmware virtual format in just a few clicks.
Latest version of vCenter converter is 5.1 which includes the following new functionality
- Support for virtual machine hardware version 9
- Guest operating system support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Guest operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Support for virtual and physical machine sources with GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks
- Support for virtual and physical machine sources with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
- Support for EXT4 file system
Some supported version of vCenter converter are
- Windows XP Professional SP3(32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Vista SP2(32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
It can be downloaded from vmware website (https://www.vmware.com/go/getconverter)
