asked on 8/10/2016

Moving a VM from Workstation to ESXi

Is it possible to move a VM from VMworkstation to an ESXi environment? If so, what would be the recommended best practice?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

8/10/2016

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

8/10/2016

The correct and recommended method of "moving" a Virtual Machine from VMware Workstation to VMware vSphere it to use VMware Converter.

see my EE Article

HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1

HOW TO: FAQ VMware P2V Troubleshooting

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998, was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies. VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture. Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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