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vConverter Functional Overview 20
Conversion Process
Once the job has been configured
and started, the vConverter client
starts a new migration session and
invokes the Post Processing Service
that is running within the VMware
vMA on the target system. The PPS
creates virtual disks and makes
some additional preparations to
receive the data from the source
MTP. When all preparations on the
PPS site have been done, the
vConverter client invokes MTP to
start streaming the source data. The
MTP reads block by block from the
selected hard disks and uploads the
data to target PPS.
Once the data transfer has
completed, the vConverter client
will invoke PPS to migrate
hardware specific configurations to
settings compatible with the target
platform. As a result, PPS gets a
virtual disk image (or set of images)
that can be used to register a new
VM instance within VMware ESX
Server.
An architectural representation of
the Linux P2V process is shown
below: