{"id":8770,"date":"2007-01-31T07:47:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2007-01-31T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"convert-physical-machine-to-virtual-machines-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"Convert Physical Machine to Virtual Machines &#8211; Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/converter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/pdf\/converter_datasheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VMware Converter 3.0 (Starter Edition)<\/a>\u00a0 or P2V is now going to be free.\u00a0 It&#8217;s available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download\/converter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">download<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who is migrting their physical environment\u00a0to VMware Server or ESX this will be good news.\u00a0 There is still an Enterprise Edition which I think must still be paid for.\u00a0 There is a feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/converter\/get.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">comparison table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re still left with an important question &#8230; are you happy with the physical machine&#8217;s configuration and health?\u00a0 If so then a conversion may be suitable.\u00a0 If not, then a new build is probably the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.minasi.com\/forum\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Pietrzak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has announced that VMware Converter 3.0 (Starter Edition)\u00a0 or P2V is now going to be free.\u00a0 It&#8217;s available for download right now. For anyone who is migrting their physical environment\u00a0to VMware Server or ESX this will be good news.\u00a0 There is still an Enterprise Edition which I think must still be paid for.\u00a0 There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Convert Physical Machine to Virtual Machines &#8211; Free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}