VMware VCENTER CONVERTER EN-000158-02 Manual de usuario
User's Guide
vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1
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Contents
Updated Information 5
About This Book 7
1Introduction 9
Migration with Converter Standalone 9
Converter Standalone Components 10
Converter Standalone Features 10
2System Requirements 19
Supported Operating Systems 19
Installation Space Requirements 20
Supported Source Types 21
Supported Destination Types 23
Restoring VCB Images in Converter Standalone 24
How Conversion Affects the Source Settings When They Are Applied to the Destination 25
Changes That Conversion Causes to Virtual Hardware 26
TCP/IP Port Requirements for Conversion 26
Common Requirements for Remote Hot Cloning of Windows Operating Systems 26
3Installing and Uninstalling VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 29
Install Converter Standalone in Windows 29
Uninstall, Modify, or Repair Converter Standalone in Windows 30
Perform a Command-Line Installation in Windows 31
Command-Line Options for Windows Installation 31
Perform a Local Installation in Linux 32
Perform a Client-Server Installation in Linux 33
Uninstall Converter Standalone in Linux 34
Modify or Repair Converter Standalone in Linux 34
Connect to a Remote Converter Standalone Server 35
4Converting Machines 37
Convert a Machine 37
5Configuring VMware Virtual Machines 65
Configure a Virtual Machine 65
6Managing Conversion and Configuration Tasks 73
Manage Tasks in the Task List 73
Glossary 79
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Index 87
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Updated Information
This User's Guide for vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 is updated with each release of the product or when
necessary.
This table provides the update history of the User's Guide for vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1.
Revision Description
EN-000158-02 nIn Table 2-1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7.0 is removed from the list as Converter
Standalone does not support this operating system.
nIn Table 2-3, the Third-party virtual machines or system images row is updated to
reflect that Parallels Virtuozzo containers are not supported.
nIn Table 2-4, a new row is added to reflect the limitations related to synchronizing
the source with the destination machine for Windows 2000 sources.
nIn Table 2-4, a new row is added to reflect the limitations related to synchronizing
the source with the destination machine for Windows XP or later sources.
nIn Table 2-5, the Linux host limitations are updated to reflect that VMware Tools
installation is not supported.
nThe topic “Perform a Local Installation in Linux,” on page 32 now contains the
correct filename of the Linux installer file.
nStep 12 in the "Perform a Client-Server Installation in Linux" topic is updated to
reflect the actual procedure.
nThe topic “Customize the Guest Operating System,” on page 56 is updated to state
explicitly that you cannot customize the guest operating system of Linux source
machines.
nIn Step 1 of the "Save Sysprep Files" topic, the Sysprep files locations for Linux are
updated to reflect the correct location of the files.
nThe topic Virtual Machine Conversion Limitations has been renamed for clarity to
“Conversion Limitations for Virtual Machines,” on page 22.
nThe topic Virtual Appliance Conversion Limitations has been renamed for clarity to
“Conversion Limitations for Virtual Appliances,” on page 23.
nThe topic Powered-On Machine Conversion Limitations has been renamed for
clarity to “Conversion Limitations for Powered-On Machines,” on page 22.
EN-000158-01 Minor revision.
EN-000158-00 Initial release.
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About This Book
This book, the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone User’s Guide, provides information about installing and
using VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone.
Intended Audience
This book is intended for users who want to do the following:
nInstall, upgrade, or use Converter Standalone
nNonintrusively copy and transform physical machines into VMware virtual machines that VMware
vCenter Server manages
The material in this book is written for information systems engineers, software developers, QA engineers,
trainers, salespeople who run demonstrations, and anyone who wants to create virtual machines.
Document Feedback
VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send your
feedback to [email protected].
VMware Infrastructure Documentation
The VMware Infrastructure documentation consists of the combined VMware vCenter Server and ESX
documentation set.
Technical Support and Education Resources
The following technical support resources are available to you. To access the current version of this book and
other books, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
Online and Telephone
Support
To use online support to submit technical support requests, view your product
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Customers with appropriate support contracts should use telephone support
for the fastest response on priority 1 issues. Go to
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Support Offerings To find out how VMware support offerings can help meet your business needs,
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Services
VMware Education Services courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study
examples, and course materials designed to be used as on-the-job reference
tools. Courses are available onsite, in the classroom, and live online. For onsite
pilot programs and implementation best practices, VMware Consulting
Services provides offerings to help you assess, plan, build, and manage your
virtual environment. To access information about education classes,
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Introduction 1
VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 provides a scalable solution to migrate physical-to-virtual and
virtual-to-virtual machines.
Converter Standalone eases interoperability among the following products.
nVMware hosted products can be both conversion sources and conversion destinations.
nVMware Workstation
nVMware ACE
nVMware Fusion™
nVMware Server
nVMware Player
nVirtual machines running on ESX that vCenter Server manages can be both conversion sources and
conversion destinations.
nUnmanaged VMware ESX
nVMware ESXi Installable
nVMware ESXi Embedded
You can also restore VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) images into VMware virtual machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
n“Migration with Converter Standalone,” on page 9
n“Converter Standalone Components,” on page 10
n“Converter Standalone Features,” on page 10
Migration with Converter Standalone
You can convert virtual machines from different source formats to one of several VMware product destinations.
Use Converter Standalone to accomplish the following tasks:
nConvert physical and virtual machines to use across different VMware product formats.
nMove virtual machines to use across different VMware product platforms.
nImport and export virtual appliances from a local file system or from a URL.
nCreate VMware virtual machines from VCB images.
nCreate VMware virtual machines from third-party formats.
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nReduce the time needed to set up new virtual machine environments.
nMigrate legacy servers to new hardware without reinstalling operating systems or application software.
nPerform migrations across heterogeneous hardware.
nReadjust volume sizes and place volumes on separate virtual disks and migrate the disks across
independent datastores.
nView audit trails.
Converter Standalone Components
The Converter Standalone application consists of a client, a server, and an agent. The Converter Standalone
client can run on a separate machine. The Converter Standalone server and agent must always run on the same
machine. With this configuration, you can set up and manage conversion tasks remotely.
You use the Converter Standalone client to send conversion requests to the server. The server manages
conversion requests and sends them to the agent. The Converter Standalone agent runs the conversion task.
You can install all components on the same machine and use the Converter Standalone to convert all source
types to all destination types.
You can also install the Converter Standalone client on a separate machine and use the client to manage a
remote Converter Standalone server.
During a client-server installation you must install remote access to allow incoming connections to a Converter
Standalone server.
Converter Standalone Features
VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides a set of features to convert physical and virtual machines.
Table 1-1. Converter Standalone Features
Features VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Supported products Designed for single migrations to VMware products such as
VMware Infrastructure, VMware Player, VMware Workstation, and
VMware Server.
License No licensing support.
Cloning Local and remote hot cloning to hosted products (Workstation, VMware Player,
VMware Server) and ESX.
Task management Single migration at a time. Set up a conversion.
The VMware Converter Boot CD (for cold cloning) is available only with a Converter Enterprise license. For
details about how to install the Boot CD, see the VMware Converter Enterprise for VirtualCenter 2.5 Administration
Guide.
Cloning and System Reconfiguration of Physical Machines
Cloning and system reconfiguration are processes that create the virtual disks and configure the target virtual
machine so that it works successfully in a virtual environment.
Cloning is the process of creating a cloned disk, where the cloned disk is a virtual disk that is an exact copy of
the source physical disk. This process involves copying the data on a physical source machine’s hard disk and
transferring that data to a target virtual disk (the new cloned disk).
System reconfiguration is the process of adjusting the migrated operating system so that it can function on
virtual hardware. This adjustment is performed on the target virtual disk after cloning. The target virtual disk
can then function as a bootable system disk in a virtual machine.
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