How to Perform oVirt P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration is the process of moving workloads from a physical server to a virtual environment. Many organizations choose P2V because it helps them reduce hardware costs, simplify IT management, and improve disaster recovery. By migrating your physical servers to oVirt, you can centralize resources and make your infrastructure more flexible.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery makes P2V migrations simple and reliable. It supports not only oVirt but also other popular virtualization platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, RHV, OLVM, Proxmox, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor HCI, Huawei Fusion Compute, H3C CAS/UIS, Arcfra, KayGrid, InCloud Sphere, FusionOne Compute, ZStack, and OpenStack. With Vinchin’s solution, you can move your physical servers to the cloud or on-premises virtual environments with ease.

How to perform oVirt P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Prerequisites

Vinchin supports easy oVirt 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.

Migration Steps

You can easily perform oVirt 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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