A company is getting ready to virtualize their Windows servers with vSphere on clustered hosts and SAN storage. If they install VMware Converter on a third machine to initiate the process, will that ...

During VMworld 2008, Vizioncore showed off a preview of its advanced conversion tool, vConverter. And this week, less than two months after the show, Vizioncore is announcing the release of vConverter ...

Here’s another great product that I learned about in TechMentor NYC. I wish I had it available to me at my last corporate position. Say you have a legacy piece of software that you would love to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may seem that performing a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion is a boring task in the current virtualization landscape. In some recent tasks, I have had some conversions give me some bizarre ...

Following customer complaints, Microsoft has decided to re-introduce physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions in its System Center Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). It was dropped from the last version, ...

Conversion applications move a working host into its new virtual environment along with its stored application images in tow. Unless VM guests are installed from ‘bare metal’ operating systems and ...