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Using vCenter Converter 6.3 with vSphere 8 or VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A)

10.13.2022 by William Lam // 5 Comments

With so much anticipation for the #vSphere8 release, I should also mention that another very important VMware Product has officially GA'ed today - vCenter Converter 6.3! 🥳

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— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) October 11, 2022

Since the announcement that vCenter Converter was re-returning, customers have been looking forward to the day that vCenter Converter would be an officially supported product again. Luckily, folks did not have to wait long from the early beta almost a month ago and just a couple of days ago, vCenter Converter 6.3 has officially GA'ed!

The goal of this initial vCenter Converter release was to bring functional parity with the last supported release, updated development and security practices and a few minor enhancements including some new Guest Operating Systems and vSphere 7.0 support. The team still has a ton in store for subsequent releases and if there are certain features you really want to see, feel free to leave a comment and I will be sure to share it with PM/Engr team.

With that said, I have also been getting a lot of questions from customers interested in using Converter to migrate workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A), especially as they think about modernizing and consolidating their Datacenter infrastructure. While, VMware Cloud on AWS as a destination will be in scope for the next release, I was curious on whether it would work given that vSphere 7.0 support was added to latest vCenter Converter release.

You know what happens when I get curious ... I just have to try it out! 😅

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Categories // VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere 8.0 Tags // vCenter Converter, VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere 8.0

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.

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Categories // vSphere Tags // vCenter Converter

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