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Table Of Contents
- User’s Manual
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Application Requirements
- Memory Requirements for Cold Cloning
- Virtual Machine and System Image Requirements
- Restoring VCB Images in Converter
- Supported Destinations
- Configuring Permissions for VirtualCenter Users
- Level of Internationalization Support
- How Converting Affects Settings
- Changes to Virtual Hardware
- TCP/IP Port Requirements
- Remote Hot Cloning Troubleshooting Tips
- Installing and Uninstalling
- Converting Machines
- Using the Converter Boot CD for Local Cold Cloning
- Configuring VMware Virtual Machines
- Managing Tasks
- Appendix: Migration with p2vTool Command-Line Interface
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 2 System Requirements
Virtual Machine and System Image Requirements
Convertercanconvertthefollowingvirtualmachinetypes:
Workstation6.x,Workstation5.x,andWorkstation4.x
VMwareFusion1.x
ESXServer3.x
ESXServer3iversion3.5InstallableandESXServer3iversion3.5Embedded
ESXServer2.5.x(iftheserverismanagedwithVirtualCenter2.x)
GSXServer3.x
VMwareServer1.x,
VirtualCenter2.x
MicrosoftVirtual PCversion7andlater
AnyversionofMicrosoftVirtual Server
ConvertercanconvertthefollowingvirtualmachinetypestoOVForOVAvirtualappliances:
ESXServeroravirtualmachinethatismanagedbyVirtualCenter
Workstation
Convertercanconvertthefollowingsystemimagetypes:
VCB
AcronisTrueImage9
SymantecBackupExecSystemRecovery(formerlyLiveStateRecovery)6.5and7.0,
LiveStateRecovery3.0and6.0,andNortonGhostversion9.0,10.0,and12.0(.sv2ifiles)
StorageCraftShadowProtect
Requirements:
Virtualmachinesmustbepoweredoffbeforeyouconvertthem.Youcannotconvertsuspendedvirtual
machines.
VirtualmachinesfromMacintoshversionsofVirtual PCarenotsupported.
TheoperatingsystemonthesourceVirtual PCorVirtual ServervirtualmachinemustbeaWindows
guestoperatingsystemsupportedbytheintendedVMwareplatform(forexample,Workstation 5or6).
SeetheGuestOperatingSystemInstallationGuideforalistofsupportedoperatingsystems.
ConvertersupportsVirtual PCandVirtual Servervirtualmachineswith
mostWindowsoperating
systemsearlierthanWindows NT4.0andwithnon‐Windowsoperatingsystems(forexample,Linuxand
DOS)forcloningonly.Converterdoesnotsupportconfiguringforthesesystems.
ConvertercanconvertShadowProtectandBackupExecSystemRecoveryimages,withthefollowing
limitations:
Dynamicdisksarenotsupported.
Allimagesforthebackupofamachinemustbeinasinglefolderwithnootherimagesplacedthere.
Forvolume‐basedcloning,allvolumesinthediskuptotheactiveandsystemvolumesmustbe
backedup.Forexample,ifadiskhasfourpartitions,1–4,withpartition2astheactivevolumeand
partition3asthesystemvolume,thebackupmustinclude1through3.
Forincrementalimages,upto16incrementalbackupsaresupported.
Imagesofsystemswithlogicaldrivesarenotsupportedifthelogicaldriveisalsoasystemoractive
volume(ShadowProtectonly).