VMware v. Center Converter Standalone Release Notes. VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 5. Through an intuitive wizard- driven interface and a centralized management console, Converter Standalone can quickly and reliably convert multiple local and remote physical machines without any disruptions or downtime. Benefits. Convert physical machines running Windows or Linux operating systems to VMware virtual machines quickly and without any disruption or downtime. Convert third- party image or virtual machine formats such as Parallels Desktop, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, Norton Ghost, Acronis, Storage. Craft, Microsoft Virtual Server or Virtual PC, and Microsoft Hyper- V Server virtual machines to VMware virtual machines.

Enable centralized management of remote conversions of multiple physical servers or virtual machines simultaneously. Ensure conversion reliability through quiesced snapshots of the guest operating system on the source machine before data migration. Enable non- disruptive conversions through hot cloning, with no source server downtime or reboot. Top of Page. What's New. The VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 5.
Preserving the LVM configuration on the source machine during Linux conversions. Enhanced synchronization including options for scheduling synchronization tasks and performing multiple synchronization tasks in a conversion job. Optimized disk and partition alignment and cluster size change. Conversion data is encrypted between the source and the server.
Restoring VCB images. Top of Page. Installation Notes.
Users with limited rights cannot install Converter Standalone 5. Windows. You need to log in as an administrator to install Converter Standalone. Top of Page. Platforms. You can install VMware Converter Standalone 5. Windows XP Professional (3. Windows Server 2. SP2, R2 (3. 2- bit and 6.
Windows Vista (3. Windows Server 2. Windows Server 2. R2 (6. 4- bit)Windows 7 (3. Top of Page. Interoperability.

Converter Standalone 5. Physical machine running an operating system noted in Supported Guest Operating Systems. VMware Desktop products.
Workstation 5. x, 6. Fusion 2. x, 3. x, and 4. Player 2. x and 3.


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Server 2. x. VMware v. Center virtual machines. Sphere 5. 0 Beta v. Sphere 4. 1v. Sphere 4. ESX 3. 0. ESXi 3. Installable and Embedded. ESX Server 2. 5. x (if Virtual.




Center 2. 5 or later manages ESX Server)v. Center Server 2. 5. Third- party backup images and virtual machines. Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Microsoft Virtual Server 2.

Microsoft Virtual Server 2. R2 Hyper- V Server virtual machines that run Windows guest operating systems Hyper- V Server virtual machines that run Linux guest operating systems Acronis True Image Echo 9. Acronis True Image 1.
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Home product)Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly Live. State Recovery) 6. Live. State Recovery 3. Norton Ghost version 1. Parallels Desktop 2. Storage. Craft Shadow.

Protect 2. 0, 2. 5, 3. For conditions and limitations about converting Backup Exec System Recovery, Shadow. Protect, and Consolidated Backup images, see the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone User's Guide. For more information about using Converter Standalone 5.
Sphere 5. 1, see Performing Converter Standalone 5. Sphere 5. 1 environments.
All other source file systems are converted into ext. For more information about the operating systems supported by Converter Standalone and other system requirements, see the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone User's Guide. Top of Page. Prior Releases of Converter Standalone. Features from prior releases of Converter Standalone are described in the release notes for each release.
To view release notes for prior releases of Converter Standalone, click one of the following links: Top of Page. Known Issues. The Converter Standalone 5. Top of Page. Installation. You must restart machines that run 6. Windows Vista or later before re- installing Converter Standalone. If you uninstall Converter Standalone from a 6. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2.
Windows 7 machine and do not restart it, a subsequent Converter Standalone installation might fail with the following error message. Error 2. 91. 44. Could not install service Vstor.
Mnt. Api 1. 0 Driver (shared). Please reboot and try to install again. If you choose to leave the remote agent on that source and then install Converter Standalone on the same machine, the Converter Standalone installer uninstalls that agent without any warning messages. Subsequent P2. V conversions of remote source machines that run 6.
Windows Vista or later might fail after a successful conversion. If you convert successfully a remote source machine that runs 6. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2. Windows 7 operating system and then try converting it again, the conversion fails with the error message Converter Standalone Agent installation failed on x. Error code: 1. 60.
IP address of the source machine. A Save As dialog box appears. Browse to the Temp folder of the current user (for example, C: \Documents and Settings\.
If the connection port is different from the one that is being used for the already running conversion job, both jobs fail. The following error message appears in the Job summary tab for the first conversion job: FAILED: A general system error occurred: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. The following error message appears in the Job summary tab for the second conversion job: FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s).
Error code: 2. 14. You cannot copy running conversion or configuration jobs If you open the Copy As New wizard for a running configuration or conversion job when the source is a virtual machine or a backup image and you click Next, the wizard displays the error message Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.
Converter Standalone does not split the source files into smaller chunks. If the source is larger than the supported file size on the destination, the conversion tasks fails.
Conversions of VMware Infrastructure virtual machine sources with 1. ESX destination managed by Virtual. Center 2. 5 fail. If you convert a virtual machine source that resides on an ESX 3. ESX 3. 5 destination managed by Virtual.
Center 2. 5, and the source machine has 1. VMDK files, the conversion job fails with the following error message in Converter Standalone logs. FAILED: agent. internal. Nfc. Connection. Fault.
Workaround: Convert the source machine to a hosted virtual machine destination, such as Workstation. Convert the resulting virtual machine to the ESX managed by Virtual.
Center where you want it to reside. Creating a conversion job to convert a standalone VMware source with a VMDK file greater than 2. GB from a network share that does not support large files, fails. If you select a standalone virtual machine source with VMDK file greater than 2. GB residing on a remote network location that does not support large files (for example, Linux SMB share), the following error message appears in the Converter wizard on clicking Next or View source details. Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.
This might lead to data inconsistency on the destination machine if changes are made to the powered- on source virtual machine during conversion. Conversion tasks are completed successfully, but the user cannot monitor their progress. In this case, the number of source disks is limited to 2. ESX and to 2. 3 for ESXi hosts. Converting source volumes with unrecognized file systems might prevent the destination virtual machines from starting. While you are setting up a volume- based cloning task in one of the Converter Standalone wizards, the volume name might be missing in some rows of the Source Volumes tab. This means that Converter Standalone does not recognize the file system on those volumes.
The destination virtual machine that is created as a result of such a conversion task might fail to start up. Nevertheless, Converter Standalone copies the source volume data to the destination using block- level copying. Converter only checks the first IDE disk in such configurations. If the hardware configuration of the source machine is modified while the Conversion wizard is open, you need to restart the conversion wizard if you want to view correct source details. Source machine details are retrieved per wizard session, as this is a time- consuming process. If some changes occur on the source machine (such as adding memory or hard drives) after this information is retrieved, the Conversion wizard does not show information about the changes.
When trying to perform a conversion over a WAN link, you might experience an SSL timeout because the timeout for SSL handshakes is two minutes. Here xxxxxxx is the IP address of the source machine. You can search the Microsoft Web site for procedures on disabling the UAC depending on the source operating system. The Reconfigure Virtual Machine wizard does not display correctly the v. DS port group name When you reconfigure a virtual machine that uses dv. Switch and you navigate to the Network interface settings pane, the Network name text box does not display the name of the dv.
Switch after the portgroup name. Only portgroup is displayed instead.
This does not affect the network throttling. The reason is that ESX 3.
Workaround: Switch off the NFC SSL. It is usually located in C: \Program.
Data\VMware\VMware v. Center Converter Standalone folder. Set the key Config/nfc/use. Ssl to false. Save the configuration file. Restart the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone Worker service. Workaround: Specify the user name without including the domain name.
Perform a physical source conversion. On the newly created virtual machine, boot a repair CD for the earlier version of Windows (Windows XP or Windows Server 2. Remove the BCD manager and revert the operating system to its compatible boot process. Shut down the virtual machine and reconfigure it by using the Converter Standalone configuration wizard. Now you can boot the machine.