Hello Bala
From what I have seen of Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions, I have yet to find any tool that is Object-based storage aware and allows direct conversion from non-VMFS disks to vSAN Objects (.vmdk), if anyone knows of such a tool/process do let us know here.
(vCenter standalone converter lists vSAN-related mention in 6.0 version patch notes but from looking in the Admin guides for 6.0 and 5.5 versions there is zero mention of vSAN!)
Going to go out on a limb and guess possible scenarios here and based on shivam_chawla comment:
P2VSAN(FC Storage) - Migrate OS/Apps running on physical servers backed by FC storage:
You can do a P2V conversion 'in-place' on the same FC-SAN, just make a VMFS datastore on the same SAN and use vCenter Converter or something similar to P2V from the current storage to the VMFS datastore. Then you can attach these FC VMFS datastores to the vSAN nodes and Storage vMotion to vSAN-datastore and convert them into vSAN-Objects.
P2VSAN(Directly-attached Storage) - Migrate OS/Apps running on physical servers backed by local storage:
Similar to above, you could attach FC-SAN to the physical box and use converter or some other tool to P2V from the local-storage to the FC VMFS datastores and then SvMotion/migrate to vSAN-datastore.
V2VSAN(FC Storage) - VMs backed by VMFS on FC storage.
This would just involve attaching these FC VMFS datastores to the vSAN nodes and then Storage vMotioning to vSAN-datastore.
When migrating these from VMFS to vSAN datastore you should be able to choose which vSAN Storage Policy to apply to each VM/Object so that their components are created to adhere to these policies, so create any specific policies you may require prior to this (or just apply vSAN Datastore Default Policy and change them later).
If none of the above is what you are trying to achieve here then please clarify your question further :smileygrin:
Bob
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