VMware Converter is the free utility from VMware which helps to convert your Windows and Linux based physical machines and third-party image formats such as backup images, also other virtual machines to VMware virtual machines. VMware vCenter Converter converts local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any downtime.
VMware Converter standalone has Centralized management console allows you to queue up and monitor many simultaneous conversions, both local and remote, such as in headquarters and branch offices.
VMware Converter provides hot cloning capability which makes conversions non-disruptive, with no source server downtime or reboot. It helps us to perform reliable conversion by making use of Quiescing and snapshot of the guest operating system on the source machine before migrating the data. VMware vCenter Converter 6. It is also compatible with VMware vSphere 6.
Is there any Linux version of VMware converter installer available? No VMware Converter installer is only available to install on windows but you can convert both windows and Linux physical machines and the virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone.
You can install VMware Converter Standalone on a physical or a virtual machine. The local setup installs the Converter Standalone server, Converter Standalone agent, and Converter Standalone client for local use. If you install Converter Standalone in local mode, you can create and manage conversion tasks only from the machine on which you installed the application.
Once the installation is completed. Click on Finish. Once the installation is completed, You need to reboot the server for the configuration changes to takes place. Below is the Console of Converter Standalone Client. You need to use the converter client to start your P2V or V2V conversions and also Configuring the virtual machines.
Let me explain the step by step procedure to convert the Powered-on Remote windows virtual machine. It can be either a physical server or even virtual machine. I am performing the conversion of Remote windows machine. Specify the IP address and also the local administrator credentials of the remote windows machine. Click on Next. You can choose one of the options for uninstalling Converter agent. Once converter agent is installed on the remote windows machine. Selecting Client-Server installation advanced defines adds a port configuration.
In client-server mode, you can start vCenter Converter and connect to another computer with the client-server mode installed and VMware converter services running. You can perform conversions using a higher-powered server with more bandwidth, a faster CPU, and more memory to do concurrent conversions. Continue through the rest of the prompts until and click on the Finish button when complete. The Windows computer running a supported operating system. If enabled, the Windows firewall is disabled.
But, disabling the firewall is temporary, and you can re-enable the firewall after a successful conversion. Simple file-sharing is disabled.
First up, you must deploy the agent to the remote host. The agent is the software that will communicate with the Converter utility to perform the conversion. The computer the tutorial will be converting is not the same machine as the VMware Converter tool installed and powered on. Choose the Powered On option followed by the Remote Windows machine option. To access those options you would choose the Powered off radio button.
Next, specify the User name and Password of the local administrative account on the remote Windows host. This tutorial uses a Local Administrator account. If you use passwordless logins with SSH , you will need a private key file here that matches the public key file configured on the remote Linux machine.
You might be prompted with a Remote Host Thumbprint. If so, click on Yes to continue connecting to the host. This happens if the computer you are connecting from has never connected to the remote host before. Now, click Yes to accept the default of Automatically uninstall the files when import succeeds to begin the agent installation.
This process takes a few minutes. On the Source System screen, select the Powered Off option. Doing so will change the drop-down selections showing you an option for Hyper-V Server. Once connected to the Hyper-V server, you will see a list of VM guests that are available. Select the VM you want to convert and click Next.
In the example below, you are converting the VM guest Windows Server. There are two other options available in the drop-down. These are useful for making a lab machine but not used for production P2V operations usually. When you select VMware Infrastructure virtual machine , you must then provide the host details of your ESXi host or vCenter server cluster. The user account used to connect should have the appropriate rights to perform administrative operations on an ESXi host or vSphere cluster.
Click Ignore. To complete the process, you will have to pick the destination system and a few other options. The process ends with you being provided with a full summary view of all the changes and, as expected, configuring a machine can be dealt with just as easily and in a similar fashion.
Taking everything into account, VMware Converter Standalone is a relatively intuitive application that has the potential to make the lives of system administrators and developers alike a bit better by providing them with a straightforward, wizard-powered solution to automate the creation of VMware virtual machines from physical ones.
The license key can be created for free at VMwares website. It has no expiration date. Vmware Vcenter 6. Convert your physical machine or another one connected to the local network to a virtual machine with the help of this powerful application VMware Converter Standalone is a powerful and useful application designed from the ground up to help you create VMware virtual machines from machines based on both Windows and Linux. Capable of working with many types of popular and third-party virtual machine types Not only does it offer support for VMware and Microsoft virtual machine formats, but it's also well-versed when it comes to dealing with third-party disk image formats.
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