How to build a low cost VMWare ESX Test Server using an HP Proliant ML110. VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 4. Release Notes. VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 4. Build 1. 46. 30. 2Last Document Update 61. Check periodically for additions and updates to these release notes. These release notes cover the following topics. Introduction to VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 4. VMware v. Center Converter Standalone provides an easy to use solution to automate the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines running Windows and Linux, other virtual machine formats, and third party image formats. 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 and Linux operating systems to VMware virtual machines quickly, reliably, and without any disruption or downtime. From vSphere U1, VMware now support booting from a Paravirtualized SCSI adapter, why would you want to do this Well why not, check out the VMware Performance Blog. VSphere 4. 1 ESXi Installable and vCenter Server vSphere 4. 1 ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Introduction to VMware vSphere VMware vSphere Introduction. 1. Lowprofile x8 PCIExpress slot 2. Eight PC25300 FBDIMMs DDR2 667 slots 3. Up to two Intel DualCore Xeon processors 4. Slideout System Insight. Convert third party formats such as Parallels Desktop, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, Norton Ghost, Acronis, Storage. Craft, and Microsoft Virtual Server or Virtual PC to VMware virtual machines. Enable centralized management of remote conversions of multiple physical servers or virtual machines simultaneously. Populate new virtual machine environments from a large directory of virtual machine appliances. 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. Whats New. The VMware v. Center Converter Standalone release adds several new features including Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu as source Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2. Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2. V conversion process. Support for converting new third party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and Storage. Craft. 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. The following features are no longer supported NT4 hot cloning. ESX 2. 5 destination. Top of Page. Installation Notes. You cannot upgrade Converter Standalone 4. Beta 1 to a newer Converter Standalone version. You must uninstall manually Converter Standalone 4. Beta 1, including all Converter Standalone agents installed as a part of remote cloning tasks Windows only and restart the machine before installing Converter Standalone 4. Top of Page. Platforms. You can install all components of VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 4. Converter Standalone client, Converter Standalone server, and Converter Standalone agent on the following platforms Windows 2. SP4. Windows XP Professional 3. Windows 2. 00. 3 3. Windows Vista 3. Windows Server 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1. Ubuntu 6. x. Ubuntu 7. You can install Converter Standalone 4. GUI client supported on the following platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 3. Ubuntu 5. x. Top of Page. Interoperability. Converter Standalone 4. Import from Physical Machines, Various Third party Formats, and VMware products, including virtual appliances Source Export to a Virtual Machine or VMware Virtual Appliance for VMware Workstation and Datacenter Products Destination Converter Standalone 4. Supported Guest Operating Systems. Workstation 6. 5. Workstation 6. 0. Workstation 5. x, and Workstation 4. VMware Fusion 1. x, 2. ESX Server 3. x. ESX Server 3i version 3. Installable and ESX Server 3i version 3. Embedded. ESX Server 2. Virtual. Center 2. ESX Server. VMware Server 1. Virtual. Center 2. Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Windows only, Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Microsoft Virtual Server 2. R2. VMware Consolidated Backup. Acronis True Image Echo 9. Acronis True Image 1. Home product 1. Symantec Backup Exec system Recovery formerly Live. State Recovery 6. Live. State Recovery 3. Norton Ghost version 9. Parallels Desktop for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS x 2. Storage. Craft Shadow. Protect 2. 0, 2. 5, 3. OVF spec version 0. Local OVF or OVA file 4. URL to and OVF or OVA file 4. VMware Workstation 6. VMware Player 1. x, 2. VMware Server 1. x and 2. Vmware Fusion 1. x and 2. ESXi 3. 5 Installable and ESXi 3. Embedded. Virtual. Center 2. x. OVF and OVA virtual appliances 4. Only Workstation 5. Workstation 6 is required to power on linked clones of Acronis True Image and Storage. Craft Shadow. Protect images. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported in Converter Standalone. For conditions and limitations about importing Backup Exec System Recovery, Shadow. Protect, and Consolidated Backup images, see chapter 2, System Requirements, of the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone Users Guide. OVF supports import and creation of. Virtual machines running on Windows Hyper V, Citrix Xen. Server 4 Enterprise Edition, and Virtual Iron version 4. Converter Standalone 4. Top of Page. Supported Guest Operating Systems. Converter Standalone 4. Windows 2. 00. 0 SP4. Windows XP Professional 3. Windows 2. 00. 3 3. Windows Vista 3. Windows Server 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 1. Ubuntu 5. x. Ubuntu 6. Ubuntu 7. x 3. 2 bit and 6. CAUTION During cloning of powered on Linux machines, Converter Standalone 4. All other source file systems are converted into ext. Top of Page. Experimental Support. The support for the following features is experimental in Converter Standalone 4. Conversion of virtual machine sources that run Windows by using Converter Standalone server for Linux. Conversion of source machines running Ubuntu 8. 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 4. General. No warning message is displayed when installing Converter 3. Converter Standalone 4. If you start the Converter 3. Converter Standalone 4. Converter Standalone 4. Converter Standalone displays wrong task summary information when using Copy as New to create tasks. If you copy an existing task within Converter Standalone and change the destination to Virtual appliance, the Ready To Complete step in the Conversion wizard might contain residual destination information physical memory, number of CPUs, configuration files datastore, and destination customization inherited from the original task. Target virtual machines converted from third party virtual images running Windows NT with SMP run with 1. CPU usage after the conversion. Source third party images that run Windows NT with multi processor kernels are not reconfigured properly during conversion. After the conversion, they continue to run with multi CPU kernel and consume 1. CPU capacity. Conversion of powered on Linux machines might fail if a very large number of source files have time stamps in the future with respect to the system clock of the destination ESX host. Workaround Synchronize the clocks between the source machine and the destination ESX host if possible. It might also be necessary to change the timestamps of the source files so that they are not in the future with respect to the destination ESXs clock. Linked Cloning of source images greater than 2. GB to a network share that does not support large files fails. Creating linked clones from source images that are larger than 2. GB to a network share that does not support large files e. Linux SMB share fails. 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.
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