How To [UPD] Download Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone
Cherie Biscoe
We just stood up our VxRails with a vSphere environment and now we are attempting to convert our existing Hyper-V virtual machines running on a failover cluster on 3 Windows server 2012R2 nodes using the free utility vCenter converter standalone to convert the Hyper-V vms to VMware VM on vSphere infrastructure. In the converter, after selecting a source Hyper-V server with credentials and viewing the VMs running on this node, i selected a virtual machine that is powered off then click next but i get an error: "Permission to perform this operation was denied".
BTW for some reason even on lates vcenter converter, despite the misleading error on "source" when is actually the target, looks like vCenter converter wont access any share, it just dont like it, even a public ones.
If you will want to do it over network (specially if the machine is big and you dont have external drive), you can open the windows disk management, and create a VHD disk, and select the share folder. This will encapsulate the VM into a VHD file, which is not ideal, but vCenter will write the image to a "physical local disk" but is actually writing it to the network.
Just remember to uncheck the "D:" (or whatever the drive you added to the VHD file) when converting the machine
VMware Converter (VMware standalone converter), now known as VMware vCenter converter Standalone, is a tool used in VMware vSphere environments to convert physical and virtual machines to VMware virtual machines, using the VMware Converter for P2V process. You can also use VMware Converter to perform V2V (virtual to virtual) conversions to convert virtual machines running in one type of virtual environment to another virtual machine. For the purposes of the post, we will refer to it simply as VMware Converter.
Different VMware converter ports are required for communication, depending on the conversion of a Windows or Linux host. Also, compared to the ports required for vmware converter p2v, V2V operations require fewer ports.