VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 does not have support for P2V a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 server.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 support ended on July 14, 2015, because of the need to migrate these physical servers to VMware vSphere (ESXi), I am noticing more Experts Exchange questions on How To P2V Microsoft Windows Server 2003? With the release of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.0, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) support has been removed, the last version that supported Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) was VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.3. Please note the following, as with all releases of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, when an operating system vendor discontinues an Operating System, VMware also removes the support from VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. VMware Converter Standalone 6.2 can convert offline virtual machines from Hyper-V, the following Hyper-V virtual machines are supported for conversionĪlso fixes numerous issues with crashing and conversion issues, when converting physical or virtual computers to VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1 and VMware Hypervisor ESXi 6.5 Update 1.With Converter Standalone 6.2 you can change the default destination provisioning disk type from thick to thin.Converter Standalone 6.2 adds a new configuration option in converter-worker.xml for Linux migrations.Support for additional guest operating systems: Windows Server 2016, Ubuntu 16.Interoperability with vSphere 6.5 Update 1.This version has new support for the following:. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2 was released on the 14 December 2017, it has taken VMware almost 2 years to release this latest version.