Good morning,
My boss is bringing me up to speed on virtualization of our systems and we are migrating servers from vMware 4.1 to a new 5.5 server. He has been converting them by installing the vCenter converter software on the 4.1 vm and selecting "physical machine" (even though its a vm) to send it to our 5.5 server. I on the other hand wished to install the vCenter software on my local PC and convert the 4.1 vm using the VMWare infrastructure option to send it to our 5.5 server. Are there any benefits or declines to either way versus another?
Specifically I'm curious of if infrastructure mode is slower than "physical machine" as the 4.1 server must upload to the 5.5 server through my machine, or if those two servers are transmitting between themselves and my local machine just setup the job and is able to monitor its progress.
Thanks,
Colin