VMware v. Center Converter Standalone Release Notes. VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 5. Through an intuitive wizard- driven interface and a centralized management console, Converter Standalone can quickly and reliably convert multiple local and remote physical machines without any disruptions or downtime. Benefits. Convert physical machines running Windows or Linux operating systems to VMware virtual machines quickly and without any disruption or downtime. Convert third- party image or virtual machine formats such as Parallels Desktop, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, Norton Ghost, Acronis, Storage.

Craft, Microsoft Virtual Server or Virtual PC, and Microsoft Hyper- V Server virtual machines to VMware virtual machines. Between The Worlds 2 The Pyramid Walkthrough on this page. Enable centralized management of remote conversions of multiple physical servers or virtual machines simultaneously. Ensure conversion reliability through quiesced snapshots of the guest operating system on the source machine before data migration.

Enable non- disruptive conversions through hot cloning, with no source server downtime or reboot. Top of Page. What's New. The VMware v. Center Converter Standalone 5.

Support for virtual machine hardware version 1. TB disks, virtual SATA controllers, etc.) Support for Red. Hat KVM virtual machines as a source A new option for selecting the network adapter for the target virtual machine Support for additional guest operating systems Parallel disk conversions Virtual SAN support Top of Page.

Data Sheet: Data Protection Symantec NetBackup There is a change introduced by Microsoft for certificates. From the vsbkp.log located on the server where the Virtual Server Agent is installed. Erstellen Sie Backups, Wiederherstellungen und Replikate von vSphere ESXi-VMs mit Veeam Backup & Replication für VMware-Umgebungen.

Upgrade Deliverables. Supported Upgrade Tools. Supported Upgrade Paths to ESXi 5.5 Update 3b. ESX/ESXi 4.0: Includes ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 1 ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 2.

Installation Notes. You can download, install, and run VMware v. Center Converter Standalone in English only.

Users with limited rights cannot install Converter Standalone 5. Windows. You must log in as an administrator to install Converter Standalone.

Top of Page. Platforms. You can install VMware Converter Standalone 5. Windows XP Professional SP3(3. Windows Server 2. R2 SP2 (3. 2- bit and 6.

Windows Vista SP2(3. Windows Server 2.

SP2 (3. 2- bit and 6. Windows Server 2. R2 (6. 4- bit)Windows 7 (3. Windows 8 (3. 2- bit and 6. Windows Server 2. Top of Page. Interoperability.

Converter Standalone 5. Physical machine running an operating system noted in Supported Guest Operating Systems. VMware Desktop products. Workstation 7. x, 8. Fusion 3. x, 4. x, 5. Player 3. x, 4. x, 5. VMware v. Center virtual machines.

Sphere 5. 5v. Sphere 5. Sphere 5. 0v. Sphere 4. Sphere 4. 0. Third- party backup images and virtual machines.

Acronis True Image Echo 9. Acronis True Image Home 1.

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly Live. State Recovery) 6. Live. State Recovery 3. Norton Ghost version 1.

Parallels Desktop 2. Compressed disks are not supported. Microsoft Excel 2003 Xml Schema Generator. Parallels Workstation 2. Compressed disks are not supported.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported. Storage. Craft Shadow. Protect Desktop, Shadow.

Protect Server, Shadow. Protect Small Business Server (SBS), Shadow. Protect IT Edition, versions 2. The Microsoft VHD format for the following sources. Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Microsoft Virtual PC 2. Microsoft Virtual Server 2.

R2 (. vmc). For conditions and limitations about converting Backup Exec System Recovery, Shadow. Protect, and Consolidated Backup images, see the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone User's Guide. All other source file systems are converted into ext. For more information about the operating systems supported by Converter Standalone and other system requirements, see the VMware v. Center Converter Standalone User's Guide.

Top of Page. Prior Releases of Converter Standalone. Features from prior releases of Converter Standalone are described in the release notes for each release. To view release notes for prior releases of Converter Standalone, click one of the following links: Top of Page.

Known Issues. The Converter Standalone 5. Top of Page. Installation. If the name of the Converter Standalone installation directory contains non- ASCII characters, you might experience conversion and configuration problems If the name of the Converter Standalone installation directory contains non- ASCII characters, the following issues might occur. Conversion and configuration of Windows virtual machines might fail with an error message Unable to reconfigure destination virtual machine. In the vmware- converter- worker.

Error 3 (error restoring key: Unknown error 3 (0x. C: \. Could not install service Vstor. Mnt. Api 1. 0 Driver (shared). Please reboot and try to install again.

Workaround: Restart the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2. Windows 7 machine and try installing Converter Standalone again. Converter Standalone installer removes Workstation 6. When you use Workstation 6. Windows source machine, Workstation deploys a remote Workstation agent on the source. If you choose to leave the remote agent on that source and then install Converter Standalone on the same machine, the Converter Standalone installer uninstalls that agent without any warning messages.

Users with limited rights cannot install Converter Standalone on Windows. If you are logged in to Windows as a non- administrator user, the following error message is displayed while the Install. Shield is extracting files for Converter Standalone installation: Unable to save file: C: \WINDOWS\Installer\ The system cannot find the path specified. The error is displayed because limited users do not have the required write permissions.

Workaround: Select the %TEMP% directory to extract the installation files: Click OK in the error message. A Save As dialog box appears. Browse to the Temp folder of the current user (for example, C: \Documents and Settings\. You cannot install v. Center Converter 4. Converter Standalone 5.

If you install Converter Standalone 5. Center Converter 4. Center Converter 4. Sphere Client fails. Workaround: First install v. Center Converter 4.

Converter Standalone 5. Top of Page. General. If you try to convert a source physical or virtual machine to a managed destination by using thick provisioned disks with large empty spaces on them, the conversion task might fail. If you try to perform a disk- based cloning of a physical or virtual machine to a managed destination by using thick provisioned disks with large empty spaces on them, the conversion task might fail with an error message Unable to clone disk source. The following messages appear in the log file. If the source sends a large block of zeroes that must be written it might take a long time for the ESX to return the acknowledgement. Thus, the Converter assumes that the operation has timed out and closes the connection, no matter that the ESX server is still writing to the target disk.

Workaround: Change the destination disk type to thin. Converting Linux physical machines fails if the size of a destination disk is 2 TB or larger.

If you try to convert a Linux physical machine, the conversion job fails at 2% with an error message Calculate. GPTPartition. Locations failed, if a destination disk is 2. TB or larger. In such case, the following error messages might appear in the worker log. If the connection port is different from the one that is being used for the already running conversion job, both jobs fail. The following error message appears in the Job summary tab for the first conversion job: FAILED: A general system error occurred: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. The following error message appears in the Job summary tab for the second conversion job: FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s).

Error code: 2. 14. You cannot copy running conversion or configuration jobs If you open the Copy As New wizard for a running configuration or conversion job when the source is a virtual machine or a backup image and you click Next, the wizard displays the error message Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine. Workaround: Wait for the job to complete before selecting Copy as New in its pop- up menu. Linked Cloning of source images greater than 2. GB to a network share that does not support large files fails.

Creating linked clones from source images that are larger than 2.