VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 was released on the 14 December 2017, it has taken VMware almost 2 years to release this latest version. This version has new support for the following:- Invizimals video game.
- Interoperability with vSphere 6.5 Update 1
- Support for additional guest operating systems: Windows Server 2016, Ubuntu 16.
- Converter Standalone 6.2 adds a new configuration option in
converter-worker.xmlfor Linux migrations. - With Converter Standalone 6.2 you can change the default destination provisioning disk type from thick to thin.
- VMware Converter Standalone 6.2 can convert offline virtual machines from Hyper-V, the following Hyper-V virtual machines are supported for conversion
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
Restriction 3 – VMs hosted on free ESXi cannot be backed up via the vSphere API. To test the final restriction, I used the Altaro Backup software to backup a VM hosted on free ESXi. Result: Surely enough, the product detects that ESXi is running a free license and fails, or rather aborts, to connect as shown next. Nov 16, 2016 vSphere 6.5 has been released and as known from previous versions, VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again. The license key can be created for free at VMwares website. It has no expiration date. The binaries you will receive as 'Free Hypervisor' are 100% identical to the paid version. Free ESXi 6.7 - How to Download and get License Keys Free ESXi 6.5 - How to Download and get License Keys Create a Bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Drive VMware ESXi SCSI Sense Code Decoder VMware ESXi Release and Build Number History.
Also fixes numerous issues with crashing and conversion issues, when converting physical or virtual computers to VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1 and VMware Hypervisor ESXi 6.5 Update 1
Please note the following, as with all releases of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, when an operating system vendor discontinues an Operating System, VMware also removes the support from VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. With the release of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.0, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) support has been removed, the last version that supported Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) was VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.3.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 support ended on July 14, 2015, because of the need to migrate these physical servers to VMware vSphere (ESXi), I am noticing more Experts Exchange questions on How To P2V Microsoft Windows Server 2003?
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 does not have support for P2V a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 server. VMware or Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit).
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit) support was removed from VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, after VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0, and support for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6 and Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 was removed after VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1. See the following table
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 is a free product, but it does have some limitations, P2V and V2V have
to be conducted manually, also you may find some conversions troublesome and difficult.
If you have a budget for P2V/V2V software, there are other commercial products that do exist, and we have used, which you may want to investigate.
If you have a large estate of physical machines to migrate, these products have a scheduler and can perform automated workflows, but these are commercial products and not FREE like VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.
The products are listed below:-
- Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 (this is FREE!) and I wrote an EE Article here about it here (personally I think it's better than 'VMware Converter'
Vcenter Free Edition
If the operating system is Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0, select VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version 4.0.1. for Windows 2003, use 5.5.3. Support for legacy operating systems has been removed from v6.2.
If you have recently upgraded to vSphere vCenter Server 6.5, and are looking for the Convert/Import vCenter plugin which existed with 4.x, it's no longer available and has been removed, and you will need to use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 for your conversions.
And if you do use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2, and you want to make your transfers 60% faster there is no longer the requirement, to disable SSL, which was a common modification required with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0
Hints and Tips can be found in my other EE Articles, which discuss Physical to Virtual conversions and VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.
VMware Product downloads here (you will need to create a login for VMware and login to download)
If you have issues, you may want to consult the following articles and guides
- Best Practice Video Guide here.
Some Videos I've developed for Experts Exchange members to show the VMware vCenter Converter process.
Basic VMware Articles Series:
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HOW TO: Deploy and Install the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (VCSA 6.5)
Step by Step tutorials, with screenshots, aimed at novices and beginners and using the VMware Host Client to configure and manage, remember vSphere Client is NOT SUPPORTED and is DEPRECATED.
Yes, we may not like Host Client, Web Client, or whatever you want to call it, but it's here to stay. So I'll be re-writing all the old favourites but using a web browser!
I am running an ESXi Vsphere Client Version 6.0.0 but with all the different documentation and changes I have trouble to understand my limitations.From the official documentation I see that my limit for physical CPU should be unlimited but I can only give a VM up to 8 vCPU.
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From other sources I read that I have a limit of 2 physical CPU in the free version.I see that the memory limitation is gone, which I am happy about.
Is there any document or anything which gives me actual limitations? It seems that VMware is hiding it a bit ;) , at least I coudln't use google efficently to gather the correct info here.
I am only interested in the Hardware limitations, not the limits for creating failovers etc.
Craig Watson3 Answers
Those two stats you mention are different; it's 8 virtualised CPUs per VM and 2 physical CPU sockets that they're talking about - not the same thing. BTW if you're going with the free version have a look at THIS great new ESXi add-in that gives you a vCenter-like interface into your host via a web client - it's really new and really useful :)
Chopper3Chopper3Free version Hypervisor (Esxi) Version 6.0
- 2 (physical) CPU limit
- No Ram limit (removed since 5.5)
Hypervisor Spec
Vsphere Free License
- Number of cores per physical CPU: No limit
- Number of physical CPUs per host: No limit
- Number of logical CPUs per host: 480
- Maximum vCPUs per virtual machine: 8
When you apply the ESXi 6 free license, it appears :
Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/03/vmware-esxi-gratuito-limitaciones.html