Standalone Converter [updated]: Vmware

This free tool from VMware is the industry’s secret weapon for and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) migrations. Whether you’re decommissioning an old physical server, moving a workload from Hyper-V to VMware, or simply backing up a live machine as a VM, Converter Standalone is your answer.

This post is not sponsored by VMware. Just a tool that has saved my neck more times than I can count. vmware standalone converter

It works by taking a snapshot of the source machine’s disks, copying the data block-by-block, and then injecting the necessary VMware drivers so the new VM boots correctly. This free tool from VMware is the industry’s

Virtualization / How-To Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Moving a physical server into a virtual machine used to be a nightmare of reinstalling operating systems, manually migrating data, and praying the drivers would work. Then came VMware vCenter Converter Standalone . Just a tool that has saved my neck