How to Perform ZStack 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 consolidate hardware, reduce costs, and improve disaster recovery options. By moving workloads from physical servers to virtual environments like ZStack, you can simplify management and scale resources more efficiently.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery makes P2V migrations straightforward and reliable. With Vinchin, you can move your physical servers not only to ZStack but also to many other mainstream virtualization platforms. Supported targets include 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 (our focus here), and OpenStack.

How to perform ZStack P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Prerequisites

Vinchin supports easy ZStack 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 ZStack 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 trial version for a full-featured 60-day test run—no risk involved! Our expert team will support you every step of the way and help ensure your migration to ZStack goes smoothly from start to finish. Give it a go today!