How to Perform VMware P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration is the process of converting a physical server into a virtual machine. This approach helps organizations move from traditional hardware to modern virtualization platforms like VMware ESXi or vCenter. By migrating to VMware, businesses can consolidate hardware, speed up server deployment, and improve disaster recovery. These benefits make P2V migration an attractive choice for IT teams looking to simplify management and reduce costs.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery offers a reliable solution for P2V migrations. It not only supports moving physical servers to VMware but also works with many other mainstream virtualization platforms. With Vinchin, you can migrate to VMware, Hyper-V, oVirt, RHV, OLVM, Proxmox, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor HCI, Huawei Fusion Compute, H3C CAS/UIS, Arcfra, KayGrid, InCloud Sphere, FusionOne Compute, ZStack, and OpenStack. This wide support gives you flexibility when planning your infrastructure upgrades.

How to perform VMware P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Vinchin supports easy VMware 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 VMware 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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