This download center features technical documentation and installation guides to make your use of vSphere Hypervisor a success. VMware vSphere Hypervisor enables single-server partitioning and forms the foundation for a virtualized datacenter. By upgrading to more advanced editions of VMware vSphere, you can build upon this base virtualization layer to obtain centralized management, continuous application availability, and maximum operational efficiency.
VMware vSphere is the most widely deployed enterprise virtualization suite that offers customers:. Please login or create an account to access VMware vSphere Hypervisor license and downloads. Preserving the LVM configuration on the source machine during Linux conversions. Enhanced synchronization including…. VMware vCenter Standalone Converter is usually updated with new version of vSphere, although it is no more included with the vSphere suite itself the Enterprise edition of Converter was dropped with vSphere 5.
But there are a few issues that you can have with VMware…. Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect. Tech Field delegate. Dell TechCenter Rockstar Microsoft MVP Veeam Vanguard Nutanix NTC What's in the Release Notes These release notes cover the following topics: Introduction to Converter Standalone VMware vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution to automate the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines running Windows and Linux , other virtual machine formats, and third-party image formats.
Benefits Convert physical machines running Windows or Linux operating systems to VMware virtual machines quickly and without any disruption or downtime.
Enable centralized management of remote conversions of multiple physical servers or virtual machines simultaneously. Ensure conversion reliability through quiesced snapshots of the guest operating system on the source machine before data migration.
Enable non-disruptive conversions through hot cloning, with no source server downtime or reboot. Compatibility with vSphere 6. Support of pure IPv6 environments. Proxy mode. File-level cloning for volumes with ReFS file system. Support for XFS file system. Support for predictable network interface names. See Support notice. Acronis True Image Echo 9.
Compressed disks are not supported Parallels Workstation 2. Compressed disks are not supported. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported.
Depending on the selected source, you can convert it to the following destinations. Prior Releases of Converter Standalone Features from prior releases of Converter Standalone are described in the release notes for each release. To view release notes for prior releases of Converter Standalone, click one of the following links: Known Issues The Converter Standalone 6.
In the vmware-converter-worker. If you try to convert a Linux physical machine, you might receive an error message in the Convert Machine wizard Unable to obtain hardware information.
A Save As dialog box appears. General Disk-based cloning of a powered off machine image to a virtual datastore destination might fail You might not be able to perform a disk-based cloning of a powered off machine image to a virtual datastore destination.
If the operating system is Windows 8. Workaround: None. Windows 8. In such case, the following error messages might appear in the worker log: [ warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number. Workaround: Remove the unpartitioned disks from the conversion job. Workarounds: Verify that the source virtual machine is powered off prior to conversion.
Provide write privileges to the network share where the source virtual machine resides. Converting standalone VMware sources with a VMDK file greater than 2GB to a hosted destination that resides on a network share that does not support large files, fails If you select a standalone virtual machine source with VMDK file greater than 2GB and try to convert it to hosted destination residing on a remote network location that does not support large files for example, Linux SMB or NFS share , the conversion job might fail with one of following error messages: Unable to connect to the virtual disk Remote server closed connection after 0 response bytes read An error occurred during an operation on a virtual disk If conversion is successful, the following error message related to the VMDK file might appear when you power on the destination virtual machine: Internal Inconsistency errors Workaround: In the main application window of Converter Standalone, right-click the failed job and select Copy As New Go to the Options page and select Data to Copy.
In the Data to Copy pane, select the volumes to copy and click Advanced. On the Destination layout tab, select Split not pre-allocated or Split pre-allocated as the destination disk type. Click Next to view a summary of the conversion job.
On the Ready to Complete page, click Finish to resubmit the job. Workaround: To avoid the two-minute handshake, perform a conversion to a hosted destination machine for example, Workstation in the same LAN.
Copy the temporary virtual machine and send it over the WAN to the remote site. If the intended destination is a Workstation virtual machine, this completes the process. The Local Group Policy Editor opens.
Disable the Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode setting. Microsoft Windows Vista or later is installed as a second operating system on the source physical machine and later is removed, but the BCD manager is left on the source machine.
Perform a physical source conversion. Remove the BCD manager and revert the operating system to its compatible boot process. Shut down the virtual machine and reconfigure it by using the Converter Standalone configuration wizard. Now you can boot the machine. For more information on how to repair BCD, see the Microsoft knowledge base article Windows no longer starts after you install an earlier version of the Windows operating system in a dual-boot configuration. Submitting a job might fail with The specified parameter was not correct:'info.
Workaround: Connect by using a different user account with administrative rights. You might not be able to convert more than nine disks at once On ESX 3.
Workaround: Perform conversion in multiple steps to convert the disks in portions of up to nine. Then, attach all the disks to the target machine. Windows Sources If you convert a source machine with Windows and above operating system, some disk s may be offline or read-only If you convert a source machine with Windows and above operating system, some disk s in the destination VM may be offline or read-only.
Workaround: If the disk is offline, in the Disk Management console diskmgmt. If the disk is read-only, run diskpart. Boot into Windows Recovery Console on the destination machine. FAT file systems do not support files greater than 2GB.
New System Restore checkpoints are not removed in target virtual machine When performing block-level, volume-based cloning of a VMware virtual machine ESX Server or Workstation , regardless of whether you selected the Remove all System Restore checkpoints option in the Conversion wizard, these checkpoints are not removed in the target virtual machine.
Workaround: In the source virtual machine, grant everyone full control of the System Volume Information folder:. New Non-ASCII virtual machine names during cold clone cause Converter to quit with an error message During cold cloning, if you use non-ASCII characters for target virtual machine names, although it appears that the import is progressing, Converter issues an error message and quits. New The 'Create a separate disk for each volume' option is not recommended for multi-boot systems The Create a separate disk for each volume option on the Source Data page of the Conversion wizard does not support multi-boot systems.
If you clone a physical or virtual machine that has a multi-boot configuration, every system volume except for the recognized system volume is placed on a new disk. This prevents the target virtual machine from booting into any of the additional system volumes.
Workaround: Deselect additional system volumes so they are not cloned in the target virtual machine. New OVA file is overwritten if an. If, however, the existing. The source virtual machine does not have the appropriate drivers A log file error message such as 'Unable to find symmpi.
This is usually observed in Windows Server SP1. Vista is fully supported as a guest operating system on Workstation 6. Workstation 4.
Hot clone of Windows Vista fails with permission error Although you log in as a user with administrative privileges, the clone of Windows Vista operating system fails because of insufficient permission to perform the operation. Installer creates a new vmware-client-config. Network adapter instances are not listed under the Advanced tab in the Network configuration window when using Converter Boot CD for cold cloning Broadcom's NetXtreme II Ethernet controllers and are not listed under the Advanced tab in the Network configuration window.
These network adapters are not detected during cold cloning because of limitations in the WinPE operating system. The network device's advanced options are not available, even though network connectivity is provided. Snapshot fails when cloning an unformatted Windows volume Vmware Converter does not support hot cloning of a recognized, but unformatted, Windows volume.
When doing a hot clone, you must deselect any unformatted volumes. The target virtual machine is not bootable if the active system volume is not formatted by Microsoft Operating System When you import a virtual machine by using a volume-based cloning method and the source machine's active system volume is not formatted by Microsoft Operating System, the target virtual machine might not boot up.
Workaround: Use disk-based cloning import all disks and maintain the size option by running the Converter Boot CD. Manual cleanup required of some Converter Agent files from remote source physical machine In some cases, the automatic cleanup of Converter Agent files from the system on which it ran is incomplete. To clean up manually recommended , follow these steps:. If the source machine boots from an IDE disk, the target virtual machine created by Converter boots from the wrong disk because a VMware virtual machine looks for the first disk in the disk list.
Incorrect reboot warning when installing Converter manager only When installing only the Converter manager, and not the Converter agent, on machines running Windows or Windows NT operating systems, you do not need to reboot despite the Custom Setup page in the installer warning that you need to.
Sysprep deletes drive letter mappings if your task includes customization If you choose customization options and the destination virtual machine fails at a 'Please Wait' screen after the second, sysprep reboot, you will need to rerun the import without customization.
This problem occurs because of a problem with Microsoft's sysprep, which has deleted the drive letter mappings, preventing access to certain files. After customizing a virtual machine, rebooting it produces an error message that msgina. Unable to connect to remote source machine for physical computer on the source login page During a remote hot clone, if you provide valid credentials for a valid account, then go back and change the credentials to that of another user, you might see this error: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.
Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again. To be able to change login credentials on the source login page. Customization is not applied if a virtual machine is manually restarted after running the Configure Machine option The process for customization occurs in this order:. Unable to remote hot clone a Windows NT virtual machine to a folder inside a network share When remote hot cloning Windows NT virtual machines, you might have problems importing a virtual machine to a sub-folder under a share.
If the source machine is busy or running slow, the service does not start quickly enough for Windows and UFAD is no longer running. A user with administrator privileges can restart the service manually.
The 'Configure Virtual Machine' option should not be used on legacy virtual machines 'Configure Virtual Machine' automatically upgrades the virtual hardware and configuration file version of legacy virtual machines. If you run 'Configure Virtual Machine' on a Workstation 4. Converter does not distinguish between physical serial ports and virtual serial ports on the source machine Virtual serial ports are treated as physical serial ports during the migration. For instance, if a source machine has two physical serial ports and two virtual serial ports, the import creates four serial ports on the destination machine.
Converter fails with a runtime error If your user name contains the characters! The gotcha is when going back to uniprocessor after having been multi-processor, it does not remove the SMP drivers. Running SMP on a uniprocessor platform adds overhead and reduces performance, not horribly, but some. There are white papers on how to remove SMP. Now here is where the performance issues come in when talking about cores vs sockets.
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