Paragon Virtualization Manager 14 Professional.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 6.1. 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. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1 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. 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. VMware or Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit). VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1 does not have support to P2V a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 server.
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? 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. Please note the following, as with all releases of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, when a operating system vendor discontinues an Operating System, VMware also removes the support from VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.
Offline conversions for HyperV 2012 R2 virtual machines.Support for additional guest operating systems: Windows 10, Ubuntu 15.
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1 was released on the 19 January 2016, and this latest version has new support for the following:.