By default, the Linux P2V helper virtual machine is powered off when the conversion task finishes Workaround: Manually disable this option in the converter-agent. By default, you cannot log in to the helper virtual machine during conversion of powered-on Linux sources Workaround: Manually enable this option in the converter-agent.
By default, Linux core dump is disabled but you can enable it on the system where Converter Standalone server for Linux runs If an issue occurs during conversion with Converter Standalone server and agent for Linux, you can check the Linux core dump file or send it to support for error analysis.
As Linux core dump is disabled by default, you must enable it on the system where Converter Standalone server for Linux runs.
An error message appears when powering on a target virtual machine cloned from a live Windows Server source When you power on a target virtual machine that is converted from a live Windows Server source, the following dialog box appears: 'Why did the computer shutdown unexpectedly?
This dialog box does not represent an issue with the target machine. It only requires information for the reason why the source was shut down. You can safely dismiss the dialog and proceed to work with the target virtual machine as usual. Source volumes on top of volume managers other than LVM are not recognized during conversion of powered-on Linux machines Converter Standalone recognizes only managed source volumes that run on the LVM volume manager.
Microsoft Windows Vista reboots repeatedly after customization Providing wrong customization information might cause the target virtual machine to reboot repeatedly if the source operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista. During conversion or configuration, if you choose to customize Microsoft Windows Vista and provide wrong customization information, for example invalid serial key, the customized target reboots repeatedly. This is a known issue with Microsoft Windows Vista.
Workaround: Make sure that the provided customization information is valid. Converting source machines to Windows Vista or Windows Server local or network share drive and selecting the Pre-allocated target disk option might result in failure to clone the disk In Converter Standalone agent log you will find the following error: [NFC ERROR] File error -- Failed to write to the target file: An error was detected.
This might be due to a known file system issue on Windows Vista and Windows Server By default, Converter Standalone has a 20 minute timeout when waiting for the helper virtual machine to start up during Linux P2V conversion This might cause a Linux P2V conversion task to fail due to connection timeout. Workaround: Extend the timeout period in milliseconds by modifying the linuxP2VBootTimeout flag in the converter-agent.
Sparse files are not preserved during conversion of powered-on source machines that run Linux By default, Converter Standalone does not preserve sparse files on the source machine during Linux P2V conversion.
If you have large sparse files on the source, they are created as non-sparse on the target virtual machine. This renders the used space on the target file system larger than that on the source machine.
This might also cause the conversion task to fail with a timeout error. Workaround: Manually enable keeping sparse files during Linux conversions by modifying the keepSparseFile flag in the converter-agent. Target virtual machines cloned from OVF sources fail to power on after conversion If you convert an OVF source, the option to reconfigure the target virtual machine is off by default. This might prevent the target virtual machine from starting up properly. Workaround: If the destination machine does not boot after conversion, try reconfiguring the destination image using the Configuration wizard.
Converter Standalone cannot detect the power state of VMware Workstation or other VMware hosted source virtual machines if they are located on a read-only network share If the source machine is a Workstation or other VMware hosted source and is located on a network share with read-only permissions, Converter Standalone cannot detect if the source is powered on or suspended.
This might lead to data inconsistency on the target machine if changes are made to the powered-on source virtual machine during conversion. Owner name and organization are not displayed properly after customizing the guest operating system After customizing the guest operating system, Unicode characters used for owner name and organization on the Computer Information page do not appear the way they were set in the Conversion or the Configuration wizard.
For all Windows operating systems except Windows Vista, customization parameters such as user name and organization must use characters only from the local encoding of the default user profile of the guest. For example, you can use Japanese characters for the user name only on a guest whose default user profile's local encoding is set to Japanese.
Earlier versions of Windows use the sysprep. The issue pertains to Windows and was fixed by Microsoft in Service Pack 4. Target virtual machines that were converted to ESX 4. A disk error message or a blank screen is displayed. The target virtual machine fails to start up in the following scenario:. Workaround: For all cloning and conversion operations to ESX 4.
By default, Converter Standalone requires a root login to the source machine for powered-on Linux conversion tasks Workaround: Enable the use of sudo in the converter-agent. Converter Standalone server must be version 4. Workaround: Run Converter Standalone 4. Task progress is not shown when importing a virtual machine that is larger than 1TB Converter Standalone does not display the progress of conversion tasks if the source virtual machine is larger than 1TB.
Conversion tasks are completed successfully, but the user cannot monitor their progress. Workaround: You can monitor the disk performance of the destination ESX host to check if tasks are running properly.
Conversion of a powered-on Windows Server source with non-formatted volume fails You cannot convert powered-on source machines running Windows Server if their volumes haven't been formatted. The following error appears in the log file: Failed to create VSS snapshot of source volume. Error code 0xC Workaround:. Conversion fails if there is not enough space on the source to take a VSS snapshot If the space on the source volume is not enough for the VSS to create a snapshot, conversion fails with the following error: Failed to create VSS snapshot of source volume.
Error code: 0xF. Workaround: Try cleaning up the source volumes especially the system volume and all NTFS volumes and try to convert the source again. When running on Linux, Converter Standalone can reconfigure Windows virtual machine sources only if they have NTFS-formatted boot and system volumes This limitation does not apply when converting powered-on sources. Converter Standalone remote agent does not notify the user about Converter 3. This prevents older Converter versions from converting this source machine later.
Previous Converter versions cannot convert source machines that have Converter Standalone 4. If Converter Standalone 4. Therefore, you cannot use previous Converter versions to convert sources that have already been converted with Converter Standalone 4. Workaround: Uninstall Converter Standalone 4. Task validation fails if the volumes to be cloned requires volume-based file-level cloning and if synchronize changes is active After clicking Finish on the Ready to Complete page, an error message appears in the information bar, and the conversion task cannot be submitted to the task list.
Synchronization cannot be enabled if at least one of the source volumes requires file-level cloning. The target virtual machine does not start up after conversion if the active partition is not on the first disk of the source machine Converter Standalone detects the active partition and runs conversion and reconfiguration successfully even if the active partition is not on the first disk of the source machine.
However, the BIOS of the target virtual machine might not be able to locate the disk that contains the active partition. Hence, the target virtual machine might fail to start up. Converter Standalone fails to configure the target virtual machine if users modify the disks order in the source machine BIOS If a user modifies the boot order in the BIOS of the source machine, Converter might fail to recognize the source boot disk properly, which might cause the target configuration to fail.
Converter only checks the first IDE disk in such configurations. Converter does not report all disks and volumes present on the system while converting a powered-on source machine running Windows operating system This issue is caused by a bug in Microsoft APIs that Converter uses to query devices. The issue is observed with Windows XP Professional bit, without any service pack, and might be present in other versions of Windows XP or Windows Server as well.
Workaround: Update to the latest service pack where the issue is resolved. Converter Standalone agent does not start automatically after reboot If the source machine starts up too slowly, Converter Standalone agent might not start automatically after the source machine is restarted.
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. 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. Click on Next. These cookies enable the website to remember your preferred settings, language preferences, location and other customizable elements such as font or text size. Check for additions and updates to these release notes. You can convert physical or virtual machines, and even AWS or Azure instances. Converter Standalone 6. You can provide a path for the temporary files of vmware-sysinfo to be extracted and executed.
VMware vCenter Converter Accomplish your virtualization goals using VMware Accelerators to rapidly migrate existing physical environments, or 3rd party system images to VMware virtual machines. See the following table. If you have a large estate of physical machines to migrate, these products have a scheduler and can perform automated workflows, but these are commercial products and not FREE like VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.
If the operating system is Windows or Windows NT 4. Support for legacy operating systems has been removed from v6. If you have recently upgraded to vSphere vCenter Server 6. Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone 6. Interoperability with vSphere 6.
With Converter Standalone 6. VMware Converter Standalone 6. Conversion of a powered-on Windows machine to an SMB share fails Converting Windows 10 or Windows Server source machine with incremental sync in progress fails if the machine reboots in between incremental steps Cannot virtualize a physical machine from within VMware Workstation
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