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stolmie
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Windows 10 p2v

Hi Guys, I'm totally new to vmware but need to start learning, anyway I want to start practising p2v machines. I have installed vmware converter on a windows 10 machine and was wondering if converter supports doing a p2v for this and will it cause any issues for my Windows 10 machine after I do it, I beleive I would be looking to clone the machine.

Thanks

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cjscol
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I don't think the latest version of VMware Converter supports Windows 10, it does however support the following Microsoft desktop operating systems: -

  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8.1

What is your target system, e.g. ESXi, Workstation?

Calvin Scoltock VCP 2.5, 3.5, 4, 5 & 6 VCAP5-DCD VCAP5-DCA http://pelicanohintsandtips.wordpress.com/blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cscoltock
stolmie
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Hi there, at this moment my target system will be whatever I can get free from vmware to test on and if nothing I will just test it on virtualbox, its purely for learning how to do p2v, after that if I could get a cheap pc and use Esxi then that will be the plan further down the line. If theres anything you recommend that I do then that would be great, its really to learn about vmware, p2v, managing them and general admin. I'm going to a new job that uses vmware so I plan on going down the certification path hopefully.

I've just noticed that vmplayer is free so I guess any p2v I maaged to do I can test with that until I manage to get Esxi running on a pc.

Cheers

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SavkoorSuhas
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Which version of VMware Converter Standalone are you using?
Please check the release notes for this and search the supported Guest OS under the same.
If the required OS is not mentioned, then it is not supported.

Suhas

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cjscol
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If you are going to a job that uses vSphere (ESXi) and you want to learn more about this then you really need to setup a test lab using ESXi and not the free VMware Player or even VMware Workstation, they are completely different. You can download vSphere and use it for 60 days in evaluation without a license. You will probably want to use something like VMware Workstation and build a nested ESXi environment on top of that. If you search the internet you will find instructions for doing this such as http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-setup-nested-vsphere-lab-on-a-pc-by-using-vmware-workstation/

To get the best out of a nested vSphere environment on VMware Workstation then you are going to need plenty of RAM in your PC.

To learn more about the VMware products I suggest you have a look at the VMware Hand-on-Labs VMware Learning Platform

Good luck in your new job and welcome to the VMware community.

Calvin Scoltock VCP 2.5, 3.5, 4, 5 & 6 VCAP5-DCD VCAP5-DCA http://pelicanohintsandtips.wordpress.com/blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cscoltock
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