VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1

The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 includes the following new functionality:

• Support for virtual machine hardware version 9
• Guest operating system support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Guest operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Support for virtual and physical machine sources with GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks
• Support for virtual and physical machine sources with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
• Support for EXT4 file system

Interoperability

Converter Standalone 5.1 supports the following sources.

• Physical machine running an operating system noted in Supported Guest Operating Systems
• VMware Desktop products

             Workstation 7.x, 8.x, and 9.0

             Fusion 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0

             Player 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0

• VMware vCenter virtual machines

           vSphere 5.1

        vSphere 5.0

        vSphere 4.1

          vSphere 4.0

Third-party backup images and virtual machines

• Acronis True Image Echo 9.1 and 9.5, and Acronis True Image Home 10 and 11 (.tib)
• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly LiveState Recovery) 6.5, 7.0, 8.0, and 8.5, and LiveState Recovery 3.0 and 6.0 (.sv2i format only)
• Norton Ghost version 10.0, 12.0, and 14.0 (.sv2i format only)
• Parallels Desktop 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0 (.pvs and .hdd). Compressed disks are not supported
• Parallels Workstation 2.x (.pvs). Compressed disks are not supported
• StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop, ShadowProtect Server, ShadowProtect Small Business Server (SBS), ShadowProtect IT Edition, versions 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 (.spf)
• The Microsoft VHD format for the following sources:
• Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (.vmc)
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and 2005 R2 (.vmc)

For conditions and limitations about converting Backup Exec System Recovery, ShadowProtect, and Consolidated Backup images, see the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone User's Guide. 

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported in Converter Standalone.

Depending on the selected source, you can convert it to the following destinations.

VMware vCenter virtual machines

• ESX 4.0 and 4.1
• ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1
• vCenter Server 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1

VMware Desktop virtual machines

• VMware Workstation 7.x, 8.x, and 9.0
• VMware Player 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0
• VMware Fusion 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0

Earlier releases of Converter Standalone (versions 3.x and 4.x) might not be compatible with VMware vSphere 5.x.

Supported Guest Operating Systems

Converter Standalone 5.1 supports the following guest operating systems:

• Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
• Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Ubuntu 10.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Ubuntu 11.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Ubuntu 12.x (32-bit and 64-bit)

CAUTION: During cloning of powered on Linux machines, Converter Standalone 5.1 preserves the following source file systems on the destination: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, and vfat. All other source file systems are converted into ext3 file systems on the destination virtual machine.