Vmware converter network

There are two other types of VMware Converter which are not currently supported:. You can select the components to install when you run the installer of VMware Converter. There are two available options:.

Only VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is considered in this blog post and sometimes can be referred to simply as VMware Converter for more convenience.

Hot migration is the process of converting a machine that is in the powered-on state. Hot migration is not recommended for converting Active Directory Domain Controllers. It is highly recommended that you stop all possible applications and services that write data on disks before starting hot migration. Cold migration is the migration of a source machine that is in the powered-off state.

Cold migration is recommended for converting MS Exchange servers, database servers such as Oracle or MS SQL, and other servers on which data is dynamically changed when a server is powered on to preserve the data consistency.

If the data on disks remains static, you can perform hot migration. Cold migration of physical servers can be performed if you boot from the live CD and run the process of converting a physical machine including disks drives and the operating system. In the current example, VMware Converter 6. The source physical machine is running Windows Server Step 1: Source System.

Select a source machine. Since a physical Windows Server must be converted, select Powered on , select Remote Windows machine as the source type, and specify the IP address or DNS name, the user name, and password.

Then, hit View source details. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone agent must be deployed on the remote Windows machine in this case. You should select whether to uninstall the agent files when import succeeds automatically or not. Then, hit Yes to continue. Once the agent is installed, you can view source details. Notice that VMware Converter 6. Hit Close , then hit Next in the Source System window.

Step 2: Destination System. As a physical machine running Windows Server used in this example must be converted to a VM running on an ESXi host, VMware Infrastructure virtual machine must be selected in VMware Converter for this step; select the destination server.

Step 3: Destination Virtual Machine. Step 4: Destination Location. Select the ESXi host, cluster or resource pool that is connected to the selected Datacenter and select the datastore available on that ESXi host. There must be enough free space on the selected datastore. 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:.

Check if a firewall is blocking access to the SSH daemon on the source machine. A user called user1 with a password is taken for this example. Click View source details to view details of your remote Linux machine which must be converted to a VMware virtual machine. Hit Next to continue and switch to the next step. Sometimes the converter cannot run commands on your remote Linux machine and displays the warning: Unable to query the live Linux source machine.

Where user1 is the name of our user. You need to enter your user name. Destination System. Select the destination system. By default, the destination type is defined as VMware Infrastructure virtual machine if you are converting a physical Linux machine, and this is the only available option for converting a physical Linux machine to a VMware VM.

If your ESXi host on which you want to run the converted VM is managed by vCenter , select the IP address of your vCenter Server and define the credentials of vCenter administrator or another user who has administrative privileges for managing vCenter Server. Destination Virtual Machine. Select the datacenter to store the virtual machine and enter the name for the target VM, for example, Ubuntuvm.

Destination Location. Select an ESXi host to run the virtual machine and a datastore to store virtual machine files. You can also select the virtual machine version. By default, the highest supported virtual machine version is selected. In this case, it is version 13 because ESXi 6. On this step, you can edit different conversion options. Data to copy. You can select all volumes or custom volumes to copy and select the virtual disk provisioning type thick or thin provisioning.

It is also possible to store each virtual disk on a different datastore. This option is used to optimize the alignment of disk partitions.

Set the necessary amount of memory for the destination VM on the Memory tab. Set the disk controller, the number of processors and processor cores in the Other tab. Select the number of virtual network adapters to connect to a virtual machine.

Then select the virtual network to which each network adapter must be connected , network controller type and tick the Connect at power-on checkbox if needed. Advanced options. Post-conversion settings are located in this section. In our case, for converting a physical Linux server to a VMware virtual machine, only the Reconfigure destination virtual machine option is available.

This option is used to configure the boot loader, update drivers used by the operating system to be more optimized for running a VM in the VMware virtual environment with the appropriate virtual hardware. Helper VM network. The helper VM must have access via the network to the source physical machine running Linux in order to clone all files of the source machine.

Check all conversion settings for your P2V Linux conversion and if everything is correct, hit Finish to start the conversion process. Wait until the conversion process is finished. The duration of conversion depends on the amount of data stored on disks of the source Linux machine. If you try to start the Linux virtual machine after conversion, you will get the error: Error loading operating system.

You need to boot from the Ubuntu installation medium and use it as a rescue disk. In our example, we use the Ubuntu As an alternative, you can change the boot order once by pressing Esc instead of F2 right after starting a VM. After booting from the Ubuntu installation medium, select Try Ubuntu on the Welcome screen.

In our example, the simplest disk partitioning scheme is used for Ubuntu installed on the physical machine. Now you can see which partition is used to boot Linux the boot flag is present in that string. After that, you can quit parted. Note: If you use a manual partitioning scheme and a separate boot partition to boot Linux, your list of partitions would be different, but you should similarly find the partition with the boot flag.

Create the directory on the RAM disk and mount the partitions used by Ubuntu. If Ubuntu is installed on a single partition, use commands like:. Note: If Ubuntu is using multiple partitions, create separate directories, and mount each partition to the appropriate directory:. Check the disk identifier for each disk partition. Remember this new UUID. Hence, we must change b-e9abdae-afe3ab0a to dd05b02cecec8c2f8b.

Note: If your Linux is using multiple partitions, you may need to change the UUID value for other partitions or just define them as sda2 , sda3 , sdb1 , sdb2 etc.

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.

Select the type of the installation. Click on Next. 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.