Vmware converter linux download

By default, the highest supported virtual machine version is selected. In this case, it is version 13 because ESXi 6. On this step, you can edit different conversion options. Data to copy. You can select all volumes or custom volumes to copy and select the virtual disk provisioning type thick or thin provisioning. It is also possible to store each virtual disk on a different datastore.

This option is used to optimize the alignment of disk partitions. Set the necessary amount of memory for the destination VM on the Memory tab. Set the disk controller, the number of processors and processor cores in the Other tab. Select the number of virtual network adapters to connect to a virtual machine. Then select the virtual network to which each network adapter must be connected , network controller type and tick the Connect at power-on checkbox if needed.

Advanced options. Post-conversion settings are located in this section. In our case, for converting a physical Linux server to a VMware virtual machine, only the Reconfigure destination virtual machine option is available. This option is used to configure the boot loader, update drivers used by the operating system to be more optimized for running a VM in the VMware virtual environment with the appropriate virtual hardware.

Helper VM network. The helper VM must have access via the network to the source physical machine running Linux in order to clone all files of the source machine. Check all conversion settings for your P2V Linux conversion and if everything is correct, hit Finish to start the conversion process.

Wait until the conversion process is finished. The duration of conversion depends on the amount of data stored on disks of the source Linux machine. If you try to start the Linux virtual machine after conversion, you will get the error: Error loading operating system.

You need to boot from the Ubuntu installation medium and use it as a rescue disk. In our example, we use the Ubuntu As an alternative, you can change the boot order once by pressing Esc instead of F2 right after starting a VM. After booting from the Ubuntu installation medium, select Try Ubuntu on the Welcome screen. In our example, the simplest disk partitioning scheme is used for Ubuntu installed on the physical machine. Now you can see which partition is used to boot Linux the boot flag is present in that string.

After that, you can quit parted. Note: If you use a manual partitioning scheme and a separate boot partition to boot Linux, your list of partitions would be different, but you should similarly find the partition with the boot flag. Create the directory on the RAM disk and mount the partitions used by Ubuntu. If Ubuntu is installed on a single partition, use commands like:.

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. You can choose one of the options for uninstalling Converter agent. Once converter agent is installed on the remote windows machine. I have connected to one of my vCenter Server vCenter 6.

Specify the name of the destination VM and Select the datacenter location to deploy the virtual machine. Select the ESXi host or cluster and Datastore to place the converted virtual machine. You can even choose the Virtual machine Hardware version from the drop-down. Wizard will display the current configuration. Converter Standalone 6. You can provide a path for the temporary files of vmware-sysinfo to be extracted and executed.

Note: This affects all future Linux conversions until the value is restored and the service is restarted again. Read the full changelog. It will also give you the option to save it to whatever ESXi datastore you may desire to have the Linux physical server saved into:.

As soon as you press Next button, you will see that your physical server is being copied as a virtual machine over to ESXi server:. Once above process completes, open and login into ESXi. If you choose to make a conversion from a powered-on machine, do not specify the same IP address as the source in order to avoid conflicting IP addresses.

In the next screen, a conversion summary is shown. Review the settings and click on Finish to run the conversion. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is an easy tool that enables you to convert physical servers Windows or Linux to virtual machines.

If you need to convert thousands of VMs, you should use another tool that brings more automation such as Double-Take Move. Filed under: Software by Romain Serre. What is Software-Defined Storage?