VMware VCENTER CONVERTER EN-000158-02, User Manual

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3 Click Next.
The Appliance Details page appears.
4 (Optional) View information about the virtual appliance source and select the product configuration for
sources that support product configurations.
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Click Advanced under the Virtual appliance details pane to toggle between the Basic and Advanced
modes of the virtual appliance details view of an OVF source that does not contain deployment
configurations.
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Use the Select configuration drop-down menu to change the product configuration of an OVF 1.0
source with deployment configurations and click Next.
The device settings and default property values on the View/Edit Options page might vary,
depending on the product configuration you select.
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If you receive a prompt, select I accept the terms in all license agreements on the EULA page and click
Next.
The Specify Destination page appears.
What to do next
You can now select the destination for the new virtual machine.
Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine
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.
Converter Standalone retains the last selected destination and displays that destination the next time you create
a conversion task. Use the drop-down menus to change the destination if necessary.
Converter Standalone does not support as destinations clusters and cluster-level resource pools. If you are
converting a virtual machine to run on a cluster that vCenter Server manages, select an ESX host within the
cluster. When you use a VMware DRS cluster as a destination, set VMware DRS Power Management (DPM) to
manual. This setting avoids DPM powering off the ESX hosts that Converter Standalone uses. When the
conversion process completes, restore DPM to its original settings.
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For Linux P2V conversion tasks, the only supported destination is a VMware Infrastructure
virtualization product.
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Select a VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine Destination on page 42
To create a virtual machine to run on an ESX host that vCenter Server manages or on a standalone ESX
host, select a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine destination.
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Select a Virtual Appliance Destination on page 44
You can export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance, making it available to other users to import into
their inventories. The resulting virtual appliance is an OVF 1.0 appliance and contains one virtual
machine.
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Select a VMware Workstation or Other VMware Virtual Machine Destination on page 44
You can create a standalone virtual machine or Workstation virtual machine to run outside an ESX host
or an ESX host that vCenter Server manages.
Select a VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine Destination
To create a virtual machine to run on an ESX host that vCenter Server manages or on a standalone ESX host,
select a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine destination.
You can convert your source machines to ESX 3.x; Embedded ESX 3i; vCenter Server 2.0, 2.5; and vSphere 4.0.
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