We use mainly use converter for conversions or "movement" of VMs from one region to another because it is a GUI based process. We have quite a few moves/conversions per week, so we standardized ...
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We use mainly use converter for conversions or "movement" of VMs from one region to another because it is a GUI based process. We have quite a few moves/conversions per week, so we standardized on the converter. If we run into problems with converter (multiple failures, etc..) we'll perform a back-end scp of the actual VM files. I agree that this method is quicker, but in our case we didn't want to open up the console for jobs like this, we felt it was a more dangerous process from the console (deletion of files etc..). We have used converter to convert physical to virtual, move virtual, clone virtual, convert virtual from one version to another (workstation to esx for example). I also like that the sysprep process can be automated in the process as well as some virtual machine configurations. If we say SCP'd a virtual machine to another location and we were creating a clone in the new location, we would have to scp, startup the VM and then process the sysprep (Windows) and the rename, ip configuration etc...