How to Perform P2V and V2V Migration with VMware Converter
Creating a new virtual machine as well as installing and configuring all necessary applications can take a long time. Fortunately, when you need to migrate your workloads from a physical server to a VMware virtual machine (VM), you are not required to create and configure a new VM from scratch because you can use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone can also convert Hyper-V VMs to VMware VMs as well as converting VMware VMs from one format to another. Today’s blog post covers P2V (physical to virtual) and V2V (virtual to virtual) conversion that can be done with VMware Converter.