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New vCenter Converter Beta

09.12.2022 by William Lam // 17 Comments

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)

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Categories // vSphere Tags // vCenter Converter

Comments

  1. *protectedmikeschinkel says

    09/12/2022 at 9:44 am

    I have some really, really old VMs (~2006) that I would like to convert for use in vCenter. Is that possible?

    Reply
    • *protectedBargi says

      09/12/2022 at 1:46 pm

      Yes, use the previous version.

      https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/vmware-converter

      Reply
      • *protectedAlex López | vExpert 🇵🇷 (@iVirtuAlex) says

        09/14/2022 at 7:57 am

        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.

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    • *protectedSa says

      09/14/2022 at 9:22 am

      From my experience..you can convert ...I do that for ms 2003 server .

      Reply
  2. *protectedRussell Hamker says

    09/12/2022 at 10:47 am

    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)?

    Reply
    • *protectedMike Ellis @ #VMwareExplore (@v2Mike) says

      09/13/2022 at 6:25 am

      Why would you need to convert Windows 11? Just build new at this point.

      What about Nutanix to VMware? That would be sweet too

      Reply
  3. *protectedKiran Basawaraj Zond says

    09/12/2022 at 11:42 am

    What's new?

    Reply
  4. *protectedSimon says

    09/12/2022 at 2:33 pm

    "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

    Reply
  5. *protectedRaghavendra Bsrao says

    09/12/2022 at 4:49 pm

    Can you please provide the download link for Beta verion? Thnx

    Reply
  6. *protectedPaul Hardy says

    09/13/2022 at 1:05 am

    Yes great news can't wait to give the beta a try 🙂

    Reply
  7. *protectedNikhil Goel says

    09/13/2022 at 7:42 pm

    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.

    Reply
  8. *protectedhybriddatacenter says

    09/14/2022 at 7:17 pm

    Would Like to test this, was sad to here the old version being discontinued

    Reply
  9. *protectedEdward says

    09/15/2022 at 6:53 am

    Will there be a conversion for Openstack in the future?

    Reply
    • William Lam says

      09/16/2022 at 7:36 am

      Great idea, please join the Converter Beta and leave your feedback

      Reply
  10. *protectedPaul Berndt says

    09/17/2022 at 8:26 am

    I tried to signup for the converter beta , but the links didn’t bring me there

    Reply
    • William Lam says

      09/17/2022 at 8:29 am

      You need to first send an email to register for the beta and after that, you will have option to join Converter Beta community

      Reply
  11. *protectedJerry Holzer says

    10/10/2022 at 9:25 am

    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.

    Reply

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