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Converting Machines
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This information describes how to create a conversion task to convert physical machines to a variety of
destinations. You can use local or remote hot cloning, virtual machines, virtual appliances, and third-party
system images as destinations.
Convert a Machine
The approach you take for creating your virtual machine is determined by the type of source and the type of
destination that you select.
Source type
A powered-on physical or virtual machine, a VMware Infrastructure virtual
machine running on an ESX host, a virtual appliance, or a standalone virtual
machine.
Standalone virtual machines include VMware virtual machines, backup
images, and third-party virtual machines such as VMware Workstation,
VMware Server, VCB, Acronis True Image, Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual
Server, Symantec Backup Exec Server Recovery (formerly known as
LiveState Recovery), LiveState Recovery, StorageCraft, Parallels Desktop for
Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, Parallels Workstation, and Norton Ghost
(only
.sv2i
) images.
Table 2-3 contains a full list of supported source types and product versions.
Destination type
ESX host, ESX host that vCenter Server manages, a virtual appliance, or a
VMware standalone virtual machine.
Table 2-6 contains a full list of supported destination types and product
versions.
Procedure
1 Start the Wizard for a Conversion on page 38
The Conversion wizard helps you specify your source machine, the destination for the machine, and to
select the machine's settings.
2 Select a Source to Convert on page 38
You can select from several source options for the type of machine to convert.
3 Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine on page 42
A newly created virtual machine must have a destination in which to store it. When you set up a
conversion task, you must select a destination.
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