Knowledgebase : P2V and V2V migration using VMware vCenter converter
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)
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