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. 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. The converter can be installed on any PC connected to the network. In our scenario, we will be migrating a powered-on physical machine hot cloning , so select Powered-on machine from the Select source type dropdown.
Since the VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone is installed on a different machine than the one we are migrating, select A remote machine. As shown below, enter the IP address or name for your physical server. Use an account which has full administrator privileges on the remote machine. Click Next. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone will need to install an agent in your physical server temporarily.
It will do so automatically. Once the migration is successful, you can specify to automatically remove this agent. In the dialog box that pops up, select Automatically uninstall the files when import suceeds. At this point, you may or may get an error. It can be something like: Error Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.
Once you do the above, carry out steps 2 to 5 once again. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone has now successfully connected to your physical server. Next step is to communicate with your VMware set up. So, choose VMware Infrastructure virtual machine from the Select destination type dropdown list.
Type the User name and Password. If you want the data traffic to pass through your PC where the VMware Converter is installed , select the Use proxy mode check box.
It has now connected to your ESXi server. Enter the Name for your new virtual machine and click Next. On the Destination Location page, choose the location for your new VM. In my case, I have only one datastore so I chose that. You can also specify the Virtual machine version.
I have selected the latest available at thetime of writing this article version 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:. Data to copy. Select which disks and volumes you want to copy. You can select thick or thin provisioning type for destination virtual disks you should select advanced view and resize volumes if needed.
In this example, a physical disk that contains two volumes is converted to a thin provisioned virtual disk. It is recommended that you tick the checkboxes:. You can select the number of virtual processors, processor cores, virtual disk controllers, and memory size. Select networks to which virtual network adapters of the VM must be connected.
Select the necessary virtual machine hardware version, for example, Workstation Guest Operation System Installation. Select I will install the operating system later. Guest Operating System. Select Linux , then select Ubuntu bit in the drop-down menu. Virtual Machine Name. Enter the name and set the location for your virtual machine. Processor configuration. Select the number of processors and the number of processor cores according to configuration used on your physical Linux machine that you are converting to a VMware VM.
Memory for the Virtual Machine. Set the amount of memory that is at least equal to the amount of memory on your physical Linux computer. Network Connection. Select the network type, for example, Bridged networking. Make sure that the source Linux server is now disconnected so as to prevent network conflicts.
Select the recommended value. Virtual Disk Type. Select the recommended disk type. Select a Disk. Choose the Use an existing virtual disk option. Select an Existing Disk. In the current example, the sda-vmware. Add other disks manually after VM creation by editing virtual machine settings. Ready to Create Virtual Machine.
Check the configuration summary and if everything is correct, hit Finish. Note: If you have converted multiple physical disks to virtual disks, add remaining virtual disks by doing the following:. Create a VM from a template. Select an OVF Template. Click Local File , then hit Browse. If you select only one OVF template file, a message about missing files and their names will be displayed. Select a name and folder. Specify a unique VM name and target location a datacenter or VM folder.
Select a compute resource. You can get the error on this step: Issues detected with selected template. This error can occur when the hardware version set in the VM template is higher than the hardware version supported by an ESXi host. Edit the OVF file in the text editor to fix this issue. You can use Vim in Linux.
Go to the directory where the OVF template is located and edit the file:. Find the string like vmx-xx , where xx is the number of the VM hardware version. The highest supported hardware version for ESXi 6.
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