Early in my virtualization career, VMware vCenter Converter was one of the first tools that helped me get started with building a virtualized data center. Converter is a physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool ...

VMware's vSphere 4.0 virtualization platform is out and available, but the company is still playing catch-up with vSphere support for its other portfolio products. When VMware announced the launch and ...

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 ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

As virtualization and server consolidation continue to catch on in the data center, companies continue to search for ways to migrate their physical servers into virtual machines. Since VMware is ...

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 ...