** Confirmed - I have successfully P2V'd a production SQL server managed by a vCenter 6.5 server. No Biggie**
I recently received a request to P2V an old Windows Server 2008 R2 server. I'll be honest, the last time I used Converter was with version 5.X.
I go to VMware.com and the latest version of VMware Converter is 6.1.1. This version was released back in February of 2016. This predates the release of vSphere 6.5.
Sure enough, in the VMware Converter document, it states that it only supports up to vCenter Server 6.0. I'm running vSphere 6.5, time to test...
** Perform the VM conversion at your own risk. This is not a VMware supported configuration **
Fortunately, this version is very similar to previous versions I've used. I installed the Converter application on the source VM and "let er run". Nothing fancy, the default options were taken
Well, I lucked out and was able to successfully perform the migration. Good Luck!
I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer at a Global Environmental Engineering company. I've been in IT since 1999 and from 2005, my focus has been VMware datacenter products. More recently, my attention has been for Microsoft Azure services. As the Global Service Owner for VMware Datacenter products, I've had the pleasure of having in-depth and hands-on experience with not only VMware products, but server, storage and networking technologies.
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