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What is the fastest way to convert a VMware Server guest to ESXi?

I'm transitioning a few old VMware Server virtual machines to ESXi 4.1. Both the ESXi and Server images live on the same NFS datastore. What is the fastest way for me to convert a machine to the new format? VMware Converter seems horribly slow at…
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How convert physical windows 2003 server to virtual machine on box running ESXi for free?

I have a windows server 2003 box that I want to virtualize for free if possible. My understanding is that VMware's ESXi is free. Is there a free way to create the image? What are the steps necessary to do this?
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Use converter standalone repeatedly

I need to do an conversion P2V every 3 months from the same physical 2 servers to an virtuel test environment. Is that possible with de free version converter starter? Thanks Jos
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Problem Moving Ubuntu Server 9.04 from VMWare Workstation to ESX Server

I moved a VMWare client (using the VMWare vCenter Converter) from a VMWare Workstation 7 host to an ESX V3.5 host. Everything seems to have gone correctly but when I power on the VMWare image the network devices don't load. I have tried removing…
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Using VMWare Converter to clone a Win7 VM

I have a win7 VM running in VMWare Server that I built from scratch. I wanted to use this VM as a baseline and use Converter to clone it. However while using the Converter tool, it says it can't find sysprep. I need to be able to reconfigure the SID…
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VMWare to Physical Machine - Windows 7

Is it possibly (for example) to build a Virtual Machine, with windows 7, and then port this to a physical machine..? For example, build up a configuration of a machine in virtual machine, then deploy this to a physical machine, so that it basically…
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Convert VMWare VM version 10 to 9 on same data store

Recently two VM's were accidentally converted to Version 10 requiring the vSphere web client but I would like to use the vSphere client. I would like to use VMware converter to convert them back to version 9. I am wondering if it is possible to do…
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Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware ESXi VMs (Not with Live Migration)

I am facing a small issue for converting my Hyper-V VMs to ESXi VMs. I have 1 physical server. On that physical server I have Windows Server 2008 installed with the Hyper-V role. My 1 Hyper-V host has 4 Hyper-V guests. I want to convert my Hyper-V…
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ESXi Physical to Virtual Migration Unused Hard Drive Space

I figured I would ask before I built a test environment to try this out. I have a physical server that has a somewhat large amount of physical storage. It is running SQL and would prefer to do a cold migration over a hot migration to ensure I don't…
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vmware Converter issue with 'System Reserved'

Working on converting a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine from physical to virtual. Each time I run the converter it fails at 98%. I'm pretty sure the issue is occurring because vmware doesn't know what to do with the 'System Reserved' volume on the…
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Unable to configure Virtual Machine

I'm trying to copy a VM from one Vcenter to another using the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone client (5.1.0 build-1087880). The copy fails at 98% and says, FAILED: Unable to create…
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Are RAID disks really universally unsupported for VMWare converter

I am preparing to virtualize our DC, which runs on SBS2008. We have eliminated the >2TB GPT disks and prepared some disk level backups with Acronis to use for the conversion. I plan to use the VMWare converter, rather than the acronis VM recovery; I…
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Live Linux to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (former ESXi) fails at 1%

I am evaluating VMware vSphere Hypervisor (formerly known as ESXi). The server version is 5.0.0. My steps: Open VMware vCenter Converter Standalone (tried versions 4.3 and 5.0); Attempt to convert a Linux box; Successfully contacted the source…
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What causes an "Unable to obtain hardware information" error when exporting a VM with VMware Converter?

I have created a custom role similar to the Virtual Machine Power User (sample) and want to allow the role to export the virtual machines via VMware Converter Standalone but they are receiving "unable to obtain hardware information for the selected…
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Sync changes to and fro converted physical machine VM

Is there a way to sync changes made in the VM back to the physical machine? The VM was converted through VMWare's converter. I would like to sometimes sync to and fro changes made on the VM and on the physical machine, is there a way to do so in…
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