vmware vcenter converter standalone 5.5 2 download

Powered-off virtual machines with the following guest operating systems: VMware virtual machines Powered-off hosted virtual machines running on the following VMware products: Â ESX Server 2.5.x (if VirtualCenter 2.5 or later manages ESX) Powered-off virtual machines managed by the following servers: Â Windows virtual machines running on Hyper-V Server Powered-on machines n Remote Windows physical machines: Also VM with snapshots cannot be converted either.Ī quick quote from the user guideâ¦â¦ Which sources are supported. It means that the version 4 of Virtual machine version is no longer supported by this release of VMware converter, so in case you need to P2V to older version of Virtual machine, you must use the older standalone version of VMware converter for the job.Īnd in case you were not informed, you can import Hyper-V virtual machines, but only the ones which are powered off. In this release of Converter on can choose the destination version of Virtual Machine Version 7 and Version 8 only. VMware Converter 5.0.1 â release notes â download link. You can read the full release notes and you can find the user guide in PDF format through the links below:

I have already reported on that feature when the public beta of the product went out few months ago. The alignment of partitions of VMs after a P2V process is a must do process, since otherwise the performance of an nonaligned system can get very penalizing. With the new latest version of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.1 (BTW compatible with vSphere 5.1) there is one feature which really makes the life easier â itâs the alignment of partitions during the conversion process. You might want to checkout my article about How to disable SSl encryption to speed up the conversion process.

Update: Get the latest information about the latest version of VMware Converter from this page. The version of VMware vCenter Converter bundled with vSphere 4.1 in previous release simply disappeared in the new version of vSphere 5.1 and now there is only this standalone version of VMware Converter 5.

Itâs a standalone product â available Free of charge. Release of VMware vCenter Converter 5.0.1. By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 3, 2013

Vmware vcenter converter standalone 5.5 2 download