The conversion and export will start immediately. More options are available, just click on ‘Edit’ to get them.Ĩ.) Press Next in Summary screen.
Here you can modify and configure the settings of virtual machine before begin the convert and export.Įven you can adjust the disk and partition size, RAM size and processor cores, install VMware tools for vSphere 5 and automatically power on the virtual machine after imported into vSpeher server. So, I select Version 8.ħ) Next options screen is very important. It’s always better to convert the virtual machine in higher machine version to get more features. The all files related to exporting virtual machine will be stored in selected datastore. If the vSphere 5 is having more datastores, then you can select it here. Provide the vSphere server IP and root authentication.ĥ) Name the virtual machine which will be used and shown in vSphere server.Ħ) Storage option is next. Select ‘VMware Infrastructure virtual machine’ option to export to ESXi 5 (vSpeher5). To cross check, click on ‘ View Source details’, that should bring the complete details of virtual machine.Ĥ) Next is selecting the destination type. If the file is accessible and all the information are correct, then you should go to next screen without any issues. The VMX file will contain the all details of virtual machine.
Here is the direct download link for VMware vCenter Converter Stand Alone 5.0 ( Official site)Ģ) After vCenter standalone installation completed, open it and select ‘Connect to local server’ option.Ĭlick on ‘Convert machine’ in next screen.ģ) Since we are going to convert and export the VMware workstation virtual machine, make sure to select the correct source option as shown below.īrowse the VMX file of virtual machine you like to export to vSphere. By clicking ‘ Virtualize a physical machine’ in home screen or in ‘File’ menu. VMware workstation 8 comes with vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0, but it should be installed at first time.
This software should have been installed in the same host where VMware workstation is running, or it can be installed on other networked computer which should be able to access the virtual machine files in VMware workstation host computer. This method will not work with powered on (running) virtual machines.Ī) Uninstall the VMware tools from virtual machineī) Uninstall any antivirus software if installed.ġ) You need to have the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone for this purpose. The virtual machine should be powered off or in ‘Suspended’ state. I will be exporting a working Windows Vista virtual machine from VMware workstation 8 to vSphere 5.
The existing virtual machine will remain in same host, so its some kind of cloning or copying a virtual machine to different platform, in this came its is vSphere 5.
In fact, you are not going to move the working virtual machine completely from VMware workstation. Instead of installing OS, patching it, mainly doing the exact configuration and transferring the data, you could simply move or export the existing working virtual machine from VMware workstation to your server virtualization software vSphere. You would be having a well working and configured virtual machine (Mostly a server OS such as Windows 2008 or R2 or Redhad Linux) in VMware workstation or VMware Player and now you want to use the same server OS in vSphere server virtualization software. The most important reason is ‘Time saving’.
After seeing few comments in the earlier article that people are looking the same for latest VMware products, I decided to re write the similar guide on how to move/export virtual machine from latest VMware workstation 8 to vSphere 5 (ESXi 5) The reason for moving/exporting a virtual machine is depending on your purpose, that can be either in testing or production environment. Sysprobs earlier published an article about how to move a working virtual machine from VMware workstation to ESXi (vSphere) with older versions.