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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • November 29, 2024

Migrating to the Cloud Is Easy – Choosing P2V Converters

A detailed look at converting physical servers to virtual ones and choosing the right tool for a smooth cloud migration, based on hands-on testing.
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Orest Lesyuk
  • Orest Lesyuk
  • June 1, 2023

P2V: Physical to Virtual machine migration. Disk2vhd VS StarWind V2V Converter 

A complete guide to P2V migration: reasons to migrate, P2V benefits, and use cases. Comparison between physical to virtual migration tools Disk2VHD VS StarWind V2V Converter.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • June 1, 2021

Migrating a Citrix XenServer VM to VMware

StarWind V2V Converter / P2V Migrator is a convenient tool for converting and cloning physical machines, virtual disks, and VMs across various scenarios (P2V / V2V / P2C / V2C / C2C). The software solution is free and compatible with all industry-standard hypervisors, like VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen Project, and KVM.
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Alex Bykovskyi
  • Alex Bykovskyi
  • November 13, 2018

StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!

One, two, three … Let’s roll! StarWind presents an updated functionality of V2V Converter. The utility enables conversion of a physical machine into a virtual one (P2V) and other way around. For example, you have a server with Windows Server 2012R2 installed running some critical application. With physical-to-virtual (P2V) entire host or specific physical drive (or volume) can be migrated. What else? The pressure is on! Now your VMs can be migrated directly between Hyper-V and ESXi (and backwards). Moreover, StarWind V2V Converter offers bi-directional conversion between all the major VM formats: VMDK, VHD/VHDX (Windows Repair Mode aware), QCOW2, and StarWind native IMG.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • January 16, 2018

Choosing proper V2V converter for smooth VM migration

Migrating your VMs from one hypervisor to another may be a bit of a challenge if you don’t have some decent virtual machine converter at hand. Different hypervisors have their own proprietary VM formats: VMDK, VHD and VHDX, QCOW, you name it. The problem is that one VM format can be not supported on other platforms. In this case, a V2V converter is a must-have. Now, the question arises: which converter should I choose?
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • September 6, 2017

Convert a Physical Linux Server to a VMware VM

When you implement a virtual infrastructure, you may want to convert your physical servers to virtual ones to improve your datacenter consolidation. In this topic, we will see how to convert a physical Linux server to a VMware VM. To make this conversion, I used VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. To host VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, you need a physical or virtual machine based on Windows Server. Usually, when I run this tool, I use a virtual machine. Then, I run the executable to process the product installation.
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