Unlike a migration where you take the applications and data from one computer and copy them to an entirely new platform, with VMware Converter for P2V, you take an exact image-level copy of the physical computer and transform it into a virtual machine. Intuitively, P2V stands for “physical to virtual” and represents the process of converting and migrating a physical computer image into a virtual machine (VM). So let’s see how to perform the all-important VMware Converter for P2V conversion. VMware Converter has long been a solution to allow easily virtualizing physical workloads and transitioning these to virtual machines. However, many businesses may still have physical workloads running in their data center due to various reasons.Īs the hardware lifecycle reaches its end for physical workloads, most businesses will look to virtualize physical server workloads and run them inside a virtual machine.

Virtual workloads account for the majority of servers running in most environments today.

Most organizations are well on their virtual journey in the enterprise data center and we will discover here how VMware Converter for P2V will help complete it.

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