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Power Off the Source Machine After Conversion on page 71
If your source machine is running services that you want to start on the destination virtual machine after
conversion, you can power off the source machine to avoid interference between source and destination
services.
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Power On the Destination Virtual Machine After Conversion on page 71
You can minimize the downtime of important services by powering on the destination virtual machine
immediately after the conversion is complete.
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Limit the Amount of Resources Used by the Conversion Task on page 72
A conversion task competes for computing resources with other processes. To limit the impact of the
conversion task on other workloads, you can throttle the task. If you do not throttle conversion tasks,
they are carried out with normal priority and depending on the available computing resources during
conversion.
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Uninstall Converter Standalone Agent from the Source Machine on page 72
When setting up a conversion task for a powered-on Windows source or a Hyper-V Server virtual
machine, you can choose how you want to remove the Converter Standalone agent from the source after
the conversion. By default, the Converter Standalone agent is uninstalled automatically, but you can
choose to uninstall it manually.
Set the Startup Mode for Destination Services
To minimize downtime for a Windows service, you can select the service and have it start automatically on
the destination virtual machine. You can also prevent Windows services from automatically starting on the
destination machine.
You can change the settings for the destination services only when you convert source machines that run
Windows.
Prerequisites
On the Options page of the Conversion wizard, click Services in the options list.
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