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Systems Administrator

Brian

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Ok, I do see that using the converter tool. &nbsp;I was just stepping thru the wizard in VMware Workstation.
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Ok, I do see that using the converter tool.  I was just stepping thru the wizard in VMware Workstation.

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I'm trying to virtualize my physical computer using VMware Worstation 12 Pro. &nbsp;When I click on <b>File</b>/<b>Virtualize a Physical Machine</b>, I get part way thru the process and then it fails because it's trying to include my additional hard drives. &nbsp;I do not want it to include my D and E drives, but I do not see a way to exclude them. &nbsp;I suppose I could disconnect them, but I'd like to save the vmdk file to one of my internal drives. &nbsp;Any way to do this without disconnecting my internal D and E drives?<br />
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I do have VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client installed on my computer.
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I'm trying to virtualize my physical computer using VMware Worstation 12 Pro.  When I click on File/Virtualize a Physical Machine, I get part way thru the process and then it fails because it's trying to include my additional hard drives.  I do not want it to include my D and E drives, but I do not see a way to exclude them.  I suppose I could disconnect them, but I'd like to save the vmdk file to one of my internal drives.  Any way to do this without disconnecting my internal D and E drives?

I do have VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client installed on my computer.

Can I exclude internal drives when converting a physical machine to a virtual machine?

vmware converter

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.