Feb 13
VMware Converter 4.0 has been released and it’s a biggie. One particular big feature is now in it, Linux conversions!
From the Release Notes :
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone release adds several new features including:
- Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
- Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
- Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
- Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
- Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
- Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
- Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type
The following features are no longer supported:
- NT4 hot cloning
- ESX 2.5 destination
You can find the download for converter here .
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Hi, was wondering if you knew best way to perform a physical to virtual conversion from an isolated server to usb drive, then take usb drive and import vm into esxi server to replicate test environment using vmware vcenter converter 4.0? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
The best way would be to use a third party imaging product like Ghost or True Image to take an image of the hard drive and those products can write to usb drives. You could then take Converter and convert the image of the server directly from the Ghost or True Image format to be a VM.