Conversion applications move a working host into its new virtual environment along with its stored application images in tow. Unless VM guests are installed from ‘bare metal’ operating systems and ...

In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. In part two we looked at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...

Are P2V conversions still worth doing? Your email has been sent Physical-to-virtual conversions have a few gotchas, but they may be the best option when a proper application, data, and configuration ...

It may seem that performing a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion is a boring task in the current virtualization landscape. In some recent tasks, I have had some conversions give me some bizarre ...

During VMworld 2008, Vizioncore showed off a preview of its advanced conversion tool, vConverter. And this week, less than two months after the show, Vizioncore is announcing the release of vConverter ...

Here’s another great product that I learned about in TechMentor NYC. I wish I had it available to me at my last corporate position. Say you have a legacy piece of software that you would love to be ...

A company is getting ready to virtualize their Windows servers with vSphere on clustered hosts and SAN storage. If they install VMware Converter on a third machine to initiate the process, will that ...

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As virtualization and server consolidation continue to catch on in the data center, companies continue to search for ways to migrate their physical servers into virtual machines. Since VMware is ...

Disaster recovery has traditionally been one of the most popular use cases for virtualization. Now the idea of physical-to-virtual conversion for DR is getting some traction. I agree this is a good ...

Recent VMware Communities forum discussions have brought Forensics to the fore once again. Even so it has made me think of using virtualization tools to do preliminary analysis — something that could ...