How to Perform OpenStack P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration is the process of converting a physical server into a virtual machine that runs on an OpenStack platform. This approach helps organizations reduce hardware costs, simplify IT management, and improve resource utilization by consolidating workloads onto fewer physical machines. By moving from traditional servers to OpenStack-based virtual environments, businesses can also boost flexibility and streamline disaster recovery.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery makes P2V migrations straightforward for OpenStack users. In addition to OpenStack, Vinchin supports seamless migration to other popular virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, oVirt, RHV, OLVM, Proxmox, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor HCI, Huawei Fusion Compute, H3C CAS/UIS, Arcfra, KayGrid, InCloud Sphere, FusionOne Compute, and ZStack. With image-based backup and restore features tailored for each supported hypervisor—including OpenStack—Vinchin ensures reliable conversions with minimal downtime.

How to perform OpenStack P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Vinchin supports easy OpenStack P2V conversion in simple steps but you should have a backup of the physical server created by Vinchin before. So far, Vinchin supports backing up physical servers which are installed with operating systems including Windows, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Debian, SUSE, openSUSE, CentOS, and CentOS Stream.

You can easily perform OpenStack P2V conversion in 4 steps:

Step 1. Select the backup data of physical server in Vinchin Backup & Recovery

Step 2. Select the target host as the destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

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