VMware vCenter Converter Migrating Linux system virtual machines

(a) Introduction
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is a scalable solution for converting virtual machines and physical machines to VMware virtual machines. In addition, it is possible to configure an existing virtual machine in the VCenter Server environment, which is an important tool for P2V to migrate operating systems such as Windows,linux, but there are often some details that are not successful and are now organized as follows:

(ii) Specific steps
1. Log in to the VMware Converter server. Open the VMware Converter Standalone tool

2, click Convert Machine---Fill in the information about the source system. Such as:

3, fill in the relevant information of destination system target.

4, you need to name the converted virtual machine, and select the virtual machine to switch to the vcenter Cloud management platform, where it is in the list of virtual machines

5, select the location of the target, selecting both the ESXi host on which the virtual machine resides

6, edit the option information, and make the relevant edits according to your own needs.

7, There is a very important editing option settings, not set this item will directly cause the Linux virtual machine migration failure, is the assistant virtual Machine network configuration, specifically as

Note:
1, "The setup of this assistant virtual machine is a very interesting question."
As described in the vmware-converter6.0 Installation Guide, the functionality has been defined so that Converter Standalone will create an assistant virtual machine on the target when converting a Linux computer that is already started. The assistant virtual machine needs to have network access to the source computer to clone the source files. The default conversion setting forces the IPV4 address and DNS server to be automatically acquired for the assistant virtual machine, but you can set this network connection manually
2, Assistant virtual network configuration, you need to create an assistant virtual machine, to have network access, and I in the migration, set up just a interoperability but no virtual machine used IP address, that is, this place only need to set up a network of free IP.

8. View conversions and conversion results

Conversion complete

VMware vCenter Converter Migrating Linux system virtual machines