Powered on Conversion with ESXi hypervisor?
I have Vcenter Converter Standalone 5.5 on my PC and have an ESXi5 hypervisor Server with several VMs. I would like to convert a powered ON VM (V2V) how can I do this?
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Do it as if it were a physical machine.
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How would I do that? When I select Convert Machine....I don't see an option for "physical machine" in Source Type
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Just select Powered-on machine as the source. André
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Thanks Andre, I tried that but in the next screen after logging into the source I got a message saying that the conversion could not be performed while source is powered on. So, I am wondering if...
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What's the guest OS you are trying to convert? André
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Are you sure you have selected the right source type? See p.43 in user's guide.
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Is this a "Home" edition? What you may try to do, is to run the converter client from within the guest itself. André
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it's professional and I'll try to install it "on" the guest and see what happens. Thanks.
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