How to Perform Red Hat Virtualization P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration lets organizations convert a physical server into a virtual machine running on Red Hat Virtualization (RHV). This process helps you consolidate hardware, speed up system deployment for development or testing, and improve disaster recovery. By moving your physical systems to RHV, you can cut hardware costs, simplify IT management, and boost business continuity—all without reinstalling operating systems or applications.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is designed to make P2V migrations simple and reliable. It supports not only Red Hat Virtualization but also VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, oVirt, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM), Proxmox VE, XenServer/XCP-ng, Sangfor HCI, Huawei Fusion Compute, H3C CAS/UIS CloudOS/FusionOne Compute/InCloud Sphere/KayGrid/Arcfra/ZStack/OpenStack. With image-based backup technology and restore options tailored for each environment—including RHV—Vinchin ensures accurate data capture and minimal downtime during the migration process.

How to perform Red Hat Virtualization P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Vinchin supports easy Red Hat Virtualization 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 Red Hat Virtualization 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

Ready to try it yourself? Vinchin provides free migration runs so you can test all features risk-free. Download our trial version now for a full-featured experience lasting up to 60 days! Our engineers are here to help troubleshoot any issues and ensure your move from physical servers to Red Hat Virtualization is seamless.