

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is a free application that can be installed on Windows for converting Windows physical machines, Linux physical machines, Hyper-V VMs, VMware VMs, and VMs running under Red Hat KVM or RHEL XEN. Method 1 – Using VMware vCenter Converter Also, this feature allows you to recover Physical machine backup to VMware/Hyper-V virtual disk(s) and attach the disks to a corresponding VM. You can also try the Cross-Platform Recovery feature to recover Hyper-V VM backup to VMware virtual disks and attach the disk(s) to a corresponding VMware VM and vice versa.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can protect your VMware vSphere environment and perform backup, replication and site recovery. One of the advantages of running servers as VMs in vSphere is ease of data backup. Two different methods of VMware P2V Linux conversion are considered on an example of Ubuntu 18. Today’s blog post explains the importance of Linux Server Backup and how to convert a physical Linux server to a virtual machine (VM) running on an ESXi host in vSphere. VMware is one of the leaders in the IT world in providing virtualization solutions and Linux is one of the most reliable operating systems running on servers. This process is also known as physical to virtual conversion, and referred to by the acronym P2V. For this reason, you may want to migrate some of your physical servers to virtual machines. Running servers on virtual machines provides you with a list of advantages such as scalability, rational resource usage, high availability, load balancing, convenient management, data protection features, etc.
