If the modern operating system is installed on a source machine, you can select the latest available virtual machine version hardware version for the destination VM. The virtual machine version that can be selected also depends on a version of the destination ESXi host.
Step 5: Options. This step allows you to select the following options for the destination VM:. Data to copy. Select which disks and volumes you want to copy. You can select thick or thin provisioning type for destination virtual disks you should select advanced view and resize volumes if needed.
In this example, a physical disk that contains two volumes is converted to a thin provisioned virtual disk. It is recommended that you tick the checkboxes:. You can select the number of virtual processors, processor cores, virtual disk controllers, and memory size. Select networks to which virtual network adapters of the VM must be connected. On the Source Services tab, you can select which running services on the source Windows machine to stop before starting P2V conversion with VMware Converter.
On the Destination Services tab, you can select the startup mode for services on the destination VM. Advanced options. There are two tabs — Synchronize and Post-conversion.
In the Post-conversion tab, you can set the power state for a source machine and destination machine after P2V conversion is finished. The Post-conversion processing options are:. Throttling allows you to perform your usual tasks during the conversion process.
Step 6: Summary. Check your settings for the new machine conversion job you created and if everything is correct, click Finish to start conversion in VMware Converter. After machine conversion is started, wait until the conversion process is fully completed.
The time needed for conversion depends on the amount of data stored on the source machine disks and network speed. Now that a Windows machine is converted, power on the destination VM if you have not selected to power on the VM automatically during conversion job creation. As you recall, in our example we have selected to install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine automatically. This means that VMware Tools are in the process of being installed.
VMware Tools have been installed successfully. It is recommended that you remove all vendor-specific software and drivers used on the physical machine before. Hence, you can convert a VM, even if a remote physical machine running the hypervisor has Linux or macOS installed as a host operating system. Run VMware Converter as administrator and click Convert machine.
The Conversion Wizard will open. Then, browse the virtual machine configuration file the VMX file. You can view source details if needed. On each step, click Next to continue configuring the conversion job. 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.
You can choose one of the options for uninstalling Converter agent. Once converter agent is installed on the remote windows machine.
I have connected to one of my vCenter Server vCenter 6. Specify the name of the destination VM and Select the datacenter location to deploy the virtual machine. Select the ESXi host or cluster and Datastore to place the converted virtual machine. You can even choose the Virtual machine Hardware version from the drop-down.
Wizard will display the current configuration. We are cloning machines and after cloning has finished we are shuting down old machines. My question is. We are starting cloning of machine server1 at PM. VMware vCenter Converter make a snapshot.
Users are still working on this machine and making some changes. Machine cloning has finished at PM. We are shuting down old machine server1 and new cloned machine takes all their functions. So, what is happening with changes that users made from PM when snapshot has been created till PM when new cloned machines start to be functional.
Are all the changes created after snapshot has been created have been applied to cloned machine? Thanks in advance. I've used this tool before and it's worked out well for me, but when I did it nobody was using the system so i don't know how it would handle files that have changed. I would use the converter boot disc and do cold conversions.
Less issues, especially if you are converting DC's or DB servers. I have done warm conversions and had very little issues but I also did them with no one else on the systems.
Just remember to bring up the converted machines with the network not connected the first time. You lose your nic settings because it sees a new adaptor, this is true with warm or cold conversions. Thanks for your replies. I've checked and tested this and looks like VMware is not telling complete truth here about hot migration.
This is maybe true for forms or web servers where users don't change anything on server. For other servers users should be restricted from accessing server during migration. In this case server is not available to users so I can turn it off and make cold migration. It is the same. I've chacked hot migration on one server.
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