VCenter Converter 5.5.3

[brittmontgomery]

I need to download vCenter 5.5.3. VMWare download center forces me to download version 6.2. Any help is appreciated.

[pwilk]

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone - here's a link to version 5.5.3

[16RISH]

Please check this link,

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info?slug=infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_con...

[jnovotny]

Hi,

thanks for your effort, but the link points to source code only. No compiled exe installer for Windows is available.

[jnovotny]

Hi,

unfortunately, the link only redirects to converter 6 download page

[jnovotny]

finally found it at:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-download?downloadGroup=CONV553_GA

thanks to astardjiev​

and his reply to the same issue in another thread Re: anyone else having issues downloading converter 5.5 or 6.0?

Hope it helps, good luck

[AmbaCamba]

Thanks a lot.

Official search engine for downloads is very bad - always redirect to v 6

[sarrazola]

Found it at (unofficial link removed by moderator)

[namazbayramov]

Thanks a lot.

[djhurt1]

Not to hi-jack the post but I couldn't message you. I'm too new of a user. Could you message that link by chance sarrazola ?

[retienne]

vCenter Converter Standalone | FR

see "https://www.vmware.com/fr/support/support-resources/pubs/converter_pubs.html"

[bbehh]

Have the same issue ..

found this page in English and French:

https://www.vmware.com/fr/support/support-resources/pubs/converter_pubs.html​

But all download links are broken

[scott28tt]

Why do you need to download an old version?

[pm]

To import on pre 6.0.0 infra

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php#interop&28=&1=

[scott28tt]

vSphere versions earlier than 6.5 are no longer supported or updated - if this is anything like a production workload you should be upgrading your platform if possible.

[Haipa1]

Did you found it. I need it also to convert an old xp machine.

Version 6 cannot be installed on that machine

[allanregistos1]

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@scott28tt wrote:

Why do you need to download an old version?

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Hi Scott,

(So sorry to revive this old thread)

Sometimes, we are still converting Windows XP machines, as the new version of Converter won't run on Windows XP we need the old version.  This is not because we want to use Windows XP, but because we have no choice. In my case, we have a device that was connected to Windows XP.  

So, we have to convert the Windows XP physical machine into a VM, so that whatever happens to this physical computer, we still can preserve all the programs and drivers that are needed to run the device that was only supported in Windows XP and the driver manufacturer no longer update a driver for the latest version of Windows.

I hope for VMWare to consider listing old versions again.

Regards,

Allan

[engedib]

Hi Allan,

I have these in my archives, let me know if you need any of them:

VMware-converter-en-5.1.0-1087880.exe
VMware-converter-en-5.5.0-1362012.exe
VMware-converter-en-6.0.0-2716716.exe
VMware-converter-en-6.1.1-3533064.exe

Cheers,

[FWSquatch]

Could I get VMware-converter-en-5.5.0-1362012.exe from you? I've been looking everywhere.

[engedib]

Sure, I have uploaded it to google drive:

[zipped ]

moderator note: I appreciate you wanting to share, but you can't really use the forum to share VMware's software unofficially.