VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 has just been released. Don’t let this name fool you cause Converter is still also available as a stand alone solution for P2V’ing your servers! You can find the release notes here.
So what’s new?
- Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
- Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
- Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
- Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
- Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
- Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
- Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type
I think especially the hot cloning improvement, which copies incremental changes, and the workflow automation are really cool features. These are the kind of enhancements that will make your life a lot easier during migration projects.
diphe says
Hi,
any news regarding the bootable cd?
I’ve used it much with version 3.0.3.
Thanks
alan says
hi..
i’m just trying the linux hot clonig conversion..
but when it creates the converterhelper virtual machine ..which kind of username/password you have to provide?..root login it seems disabled.
thank bye
Vladan says
When I was using the 3.0.3 (even the beta 4.0) I never run into some issue. Tested only with Windows systems for conversion. I wander what the 4.0 will be like.
Ashmai says
Alan,
You will have to enable root SSH in order to convert the Linux server.
As a note, don’t bother trying to convert any Linux server that uses veritas volume manager for its drives. It won’t work, not with VMware Converter, nor with any other conversion platform on the market.
ag says
Interesting – so this is free and no limitations whatsoever, did I get this right?