Come usare vmware converter

Vediamo come fare. Tenete a portata di mano il Product Key del vostro pc che state per convertire. Chiarito questo punto scarichiamo VMware Converter dal sito del produttore, basta fare una registrazione gratuita per accedere ai download.

Una volta scaricato il pacchetto installiamolo sul pc da clonare. Alla richesta del tipo di installazione selezioniamo Local Installation e completiamo la procedura. Una volta completata la conversione siamo pronti a spostare la nostra macchina virtuale sul nuovo pc. I file si trovano tutti nella cartella impostata in precedenza come Destinazione. Occorre copiare l'intera cartella e non il singolo file vmdk. But, disabling the firewall is temporary, and you can re-enable the firewall after a successful conversion.

Simple file-sharing is disabled. First up, you must deploy the agent to the remote host. The agent is the software that will communicate with the Converter utility to perform the conversion. The computer the tutorial will be converting is not the same machine as the VMware Converter tool installed and powered on. Choose the Powered On option followed by the Remote Windows machine option. To access those options you would choose the Powered off radio button. Next, specify the User name and Password of the local administrative account on the remote Windows host.

This tutorial uses a Local Administrator account. If you use passwordless logins with SSH , you will need a private key file here that matches the public key file configured on the remote Linux machine.

You might be prompted with a Remote Host Thumbprint. If so, click on Yes to continue connecting to the host. This happens if the computer you are connecting from has never connected to the remote host before. Now, click Yes to accept the default of Automatically uninstall the files when import succeeds to begin the agent installation.

This process takes a few minutes. On the Source System screen, select the Powered Off option. Doing so will change the drop-down selections showing you an option for Hyper-V Server. Once connected to the Hyper-V server, you will see a list of VM guests that are available. Select the VM you want to convert and click Next.

In the example below, you are converting the VM guest Windows Server. There are two other options available in the drop-down. These are useful for making a lab machine but not used for production P2V operations usually. When you select VMware Infrastructure virtual machine , you must then provide the host details of your ESXi host or vCenter server cluster. The user account used to connect should have the appropriate rights to perform administrative operations on an ESXi host or vSphere cluster.

Click Ignore. Be sure to choose a datastore that has plenty of free space. Also, always specify the virtual machine version that matches your VMware Infrastructure supported version. Version 17 is supported on ESXi 7. Select the check box for Install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine under Post-conversion processing. VMware Tools provides a set of services that enhance the manageability of a VMware virtual machine.

You want this on your converted VM. Finally, on the Summary page, review the configuration settings, and when satisfied, click Finish to begin the conversion process. Once the Status has changed to Completed , start the newly converted virtual machine. Since the tutorial is using ESXi, the below screenshot is showing that.

Log into the newly-created VM and verify all networking, services, and apps are working correctly. When converting a physical or Hyper-V host in the last section, you came across an Options screen.

This screen contained a whole lot of information that the tutorial skipped over. Thick-provisioned disks are virtual disks that reserve as much space on the datastore as they are assigned.

Notice the Used space and Total space columns, as shown below. The used space is significantly smaller than the physically allocated space. Click on the Destination layout tab. This tab contains information about each volume that the VMware converter will create. You can see below that it defaults to a Thick -provisioned type. This saves valuable system resources that can be provisioned to other machines that need additional resources in the short term.

Click on the Other tab, and you can then adjust the number of virtual sockets and cores along with the virtualized disk controller. Imagine for a moment you are converting a virtual machine that will need a second vNIC for load balancing purposes.

Your virtual host has plenty of physical NICs distributed among all your VM guests as virtual switches and virtual networks. To accommodate this scenario, you can allocate those additional vNICs during the conversion process.