Preventive Service Planning
Abstract
VMware announced in the vCenter Converter
v4.2 release notes that that would be the last version released of the
built-in Converter to vCenter. Starting with vCenter 5.0 there is no
longer a Converter product that comes with vCenter but instead the same
functionality is provided in the Converter Standalone product which is
also provided free. This program allows customers to convert (aka P2V) a
Physical server to Virtual Machine in VMware vSphere.
Content
More information on the community forums about the change:
The vCenter Converter 4.2 release notes have this announcement about the discontinuation:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vcc_42_rel_notes.html
Discontinued Support
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vcc_42_rel_notes.html
Discontinued Support
- You cannot schedule recurring conversion tasks with vCenter Converter 4.2.
- Support of the following operating systems is discontinued:
- Windows 2000
- Windows NT
- VMware vSphere 4.1 is the last major release for VMware vCenter Converter plug-in. VMware will continue to provide technical support for vCenter Converter through the end of its support lifecycle. VMware will continue to update and support the free vCenter Converter Standalone product, which enables conversions from sources such as physical machines, VMware and Microsoft virtual machine formats, and certain third-party disk image formats.
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The previous functionality that is not retained is
the ability to right click on an ESX host and select Import Machine
which was a feature of the vCenter Converter product. The way to convert
a machine now is to install the Converter Standalone product and run
the Converter wizard manually. This product can be installed on the same
Windows host where vCenter is installed or another Windows host using
the requirements as documented in the Converter Standalone documentation
here:
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