How to Perform XCP-ng P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) migration is the process of turning a physical server into a virtual machine that runs on XCP-ng infrastructure. Organizations use P2V to combine hardware, speed up provisioning, create portable test or development copies, and improve disaster recovery—all without rebuilding the operating system, applications, or settings from scratch. Moving physical systems into XCP-ng helps cut hardware costs, makes management easier, and speeds up recovery times.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is a powerful solution for P2V migrations. It supports not only XCP-ng but also other popular 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. Vinchin uses image-based backups to capture your system reliably. It offers flexible disk and network mapping options and handles drivers so you can restore images into your chosen hypervisor with little downtime.

How to perform XCP-ng P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Prerequisites

Vinchin supports easy XCP-ng 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 XCP-ng 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? Download our fully functional trial version of Vinchin Backup & Recovery today for free testing of your XCP-ng migrations! You’ll get a full-featured 60-day trial and support from our engineers throughout your evaluation—so you can migrate with confidence and ease.