Organising VM Environment (Consolidating / Moving / Copying VM running here and there to one place)

[alphabetagama]

We started evaluating VM Technology some 3-4 months back. Hence we have some VM Workstations ..some virtualised machine running under VM Player and some VM Machines hosted under freeware VMServer.

Now I installed ESX Server (3.5.0 110268) on a 4-Quad Core IBM Server . I would like to move all my isolated running VM machine under this ESX Server. ESX Server as well as all isolated VM Machine are in the same network, (means I can ping,map drive etc to/of each other VM Machines).

Please suggest the easiest ,most efficient way to do this.

Thanks a lot for all the help.

[weinstein5]

The easiest way to do this would be to utilize VMware Converter - this will allow you to import all the VMs you have created with workstaion, vmware server and the ones you are running with VMware Player - you can find out mor here -

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[alphabetagama]

Thanks weinstein5 for the reply.

Anyone else wants to suggest any other way?

[malaysiavm]

vmware converter is the best you can do. You can either choose it to be done with poweroff VM method or online method. Both will be workable.

Malaysia VMware Communities -

[Texiwill]

Hello,

VMware Converter is the best tool for the job.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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