Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. announced the release of its VMware Converter 3 migration tool that has been receiving high marks during its beta period. VMware Converter 3 automates the ...

I've got a diskless Windows 2K3 server that boots via a Qlogic card to an iSCSI LUN. Can I P2V this server the same as I would a server with local boot disks? I've got VMWare Converter v4.0.3 ...

Early in my virtualization career, VMware vCenter Converter was one of the first tools that helped me get started with building a virtualized data center. Converter is a physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool ...

Microsoft will release the third version of its Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) this fall and the key new feature will be the return of support for physical to virtual conversions. MVMC is ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

As virtualization and server consolidation continue to catch on in the data center, companies continue to search for ways to migrate their physical servers into virtual machines. Since VMware is ...

Converter 3 takes a snapshot of the server's operating system, application, and data, establishes it in a virtual machine on a different server, then transfers operations to the virtual machine. The ...

Physical-to-virtual conversions have a few gotchas, but they may be the best option when a proper application, data, and configuration migration isn’t possible. A colleague recently asked me if ...