I know many customers have been asking about the future of vCenter Converter, especially after it was removed back in February for not meeting VMware’s high software standards for security and stability. At the end of the blog post, it was hinted that a "renewed" version was being worked, however no additional details were provided.
While recovering and catching up from VMware Explore US, I received a surprised email from the vCenter Converter team that they were about to launch a beta for the new version of vCenter Converter! They asked if I could share this awesome news with the community, especially for those interested in participating and looking to influence the future production direction.
UPDATE (10/11/22) - VMware Converter 6.3 has officially GA'ed and is now generally available.
The initial scope of this first re-release of vCenter Converter is to bring feature parity with the last supported version of vCenter Converter, which was the 6.2 release.
- vCenter Server and ESXi Supported Versions:
- vSphere 7.0, 6.7 & 6.5
- Other Hypervisor Supported Versions:
- VMware Workstation 16.x
- VMware Fusion 12.x
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012+R2, 11 & 10
- Source VM Supported OSes:
- Microsoft Windows 10 & 8.1
- Microsoft Windows 2022, 2019, 2012+R2
- Ubuntu 16.04 & 14.04
- Redhat Linux 7.x & 6.x
- CentOS 7.x & 6.x
- Latest Supported Virtual Hardware Compatibility:
- Version 11
Upon completing the customer beta and releasing a new modern version of vCenter Converter, the product team will then be focusing their attention on adding new and exciting features that will help customers easily convert and migrate their workloads from a number of different platforms. This is also where the product team would value your direct feedback as part of the beta program to help prioritize any features requests you may have.
Sign Up for vCenter Converter Beta
- Register for the vCenter Converter Beta using this sign-up form
- Join vCenter Convert Beta Community (must be registered in the beta)
I have some really, really old VMs (~2006) that I would like to convert for use in vCenter. Is that possible?
Yes, use the previous version.
https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/vmware-converter
This is no longer a valid installation via chocolatey. I am the current package maintainer and have since "Retired" the package as it was removed/sunset by VMware. Once a new version is released, I'll look to possibly resurrect this package.
From my experience..you can convert ...I do that for ms 2003 server .
Thanks William! This is nice to hear about. No Windows 11 support?
Any plans for AWS or GCP support (convert from them to VMware vSphere)?
Why would you need to convert Windows 11? Just build new at this point.
What about Nutanix to VMware? That would be sweet too
What's new?
"vCenter Converter, especially after it was removed back in February for not meeting VMware’s high software standards for security and stability. " - I know next tool which should be removed due to security reasons, which is VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics. I was using it at my IT environment a lot for log analysis but unfortunately I have to remove it due to vulnerability in nginx web server. The issue was addressed on vmware Communities blog (date 02-05-2022) and was never mitigated. We are talking about NGINX CVE-2021-23017 - Risk: High - CVSSv3.1 Base Score 8.1- Public exploit code available for vulnerability.
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Skyline-Community-Discussions/Critical-Vulnerability-on-SHD/td-p/2892208
Can you please provide the download link for Beta verion? Thnx
Yes great news can't wait to give the beta a try 🙂
I happy to see VMware Converter is back. But supporting OS are very less. I'm looking to P2V of Suse 12. Still it is not supporting.
Would Like to test this, was sad to here the old version being discontinued
Will there be a conversion for Openstack in the future?
Great idea, please join the Converter Beta and leave your feedback
I tried to signup for the converter beta , but the links didn’t bring me there
You need to first send an email to register for the beta and after that, you will have option to join Converter Beta community
I tried signing up for the beta last week, received an eMail welcoming me to the program but still can't get to a page anywhere to download it. Would some kind soul who has access to this be able to share it with me? I desperately need to resize a VM.