VMware Standalone Converter When Do You Use It?
I see that many have asked to use some migration tool to help in migration whether from physical or from a different platform source. One of these tools that can be used is the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.
This is not just a special tool, it is a free tool. With the end of support for vSphere 5.x and also vSphere 6.0 coming soon, I have seen many trying to use this tool to move to a new version platform such as vSphere 6.5/6.7.
Where this is one solution, this tool is largely used to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine or a different virtual machine from another hypervisor to a virtual machine on vSphere.
By all means, you can use the converter tool to convert VM from vSphere 5.x/6.0 to vSphere 6.5/6.7, but is there a need to add that complexity? VMs that run on vSphere is already in a similar format supported. In such, there is no need to use the converter tool to do the job. Rather you can leverage on normal backup restore, or even just remove from inventory from the older version cluster to the new version cluster by attaching the datastore to the new version cluster.
Physical to Virtual (P2V) or Virtual to Virtual (V2V) is what the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone tool is used for from a different platform to vSphere. So V2V migration is actually treating the source VM from a different platform as a physical server and migrate it over to vSphere VM.
I hope this clarifies the use. To get VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, get it here. To know which is the destination vCenter Server version that is supported, refer to the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices to stay up to date.
This is not just a special tool, it is a free tool. With the end of support for vSphere 5.x and also vSphere 6.0 coming soon, I have seen many trying to use this tool to move to a new version platform such as vSphere 6.5/6.7.
Where this is one solution, this tool is largely used to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine or a different virtual machine from another hypervisor to a virtual machine on vSphere.
By all means, you can use the converter tool to convert VM from vSphere 5.x/6.0 to vSphere 6.5/6.7, but is there a need to add that complexity? VMs that run on vSphere is already in a similar format supported. In such, there is no need to use the converter tool to do the job. Rather you can leverage on normal backup restore, or even just remove from inventory from the older version cluster to the new version cluster by attaching the datastore to the new version cluster.
Physical to Virtual (P2V) or Virtual to Virtual (V2V) is what the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone tool is used for from a different platform to vSphere. So V2V migration is actually treating the source VM from a different platform as a physical server and migrate it over to vSphere VM.
I hope this clarifies the use. To get VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, get it here. To know which is the destination vCenter Server version that is supported, refer to the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices to stay up to date.
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