Restoring Vcb Images In Converter Standalone - VMware VCENTER CONVERTER EN-000158-02 User Manual

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Table 2-6. Supported Destinations
Destination Type
VMware Infrastructure virtual machine
VMware virtual machines
OVF and OVA virtual appliances
N For hosted destinations that reside on SMB or NFS shares, you must use volume-based cloning and
OTE
create 2GB disks that are not preallocated.

Restoring VCB Images in Converter Standalone

VMware Consolidated Backup enables you to back up all of the virtual machines of an entire ESX server. The
backup is stored by using Workstation disks, a
VCB images to ESX server hosts and convert them to VMware standalone virtual machines.
When it runs on Windows hosts, Converter Standalone supports restoring VCB images of the source operating
systems described in
The virtual machine conversion limitations for Windows hosts described in
VCB images. Restoring VCB images from Linux host operating systems is not supported.
Converter Standalone does not maintain the
Converter Standalone does not read the original location settings from the catalog file. To restore to the same
location, find information such as datastore, host name, folder name, and resource pool in the catalog file and
enter it in the Conversion wizard. In addition, Converter Standalone does not read the original display name
from the catalog file. To use the same name and if you do not remember it, look it up in the catalog file. You
can read the catalog file as a plain text file.
Information Not Preserved When Using Converter Standalone for Managed
Product Destinations
When you restore VCB images for managed product destinations (ESX server hosts, for example), Converter
Standalone does not preserve certain hardware backing information from the original image, but rather
substitutes default settings.
Table 2-7 shows which areas are affected.
Table 2-7. Changes to Hardware Information Because of Conversion
Affected Area
CD-ROM
Floppy
Network adapters
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Table 2-1.
Behavior
Defaults to device type: client device.
Defaults to device type: client device.
Defaults to the list of network adapters in the GUI. The MAC address is not preserved. The destination
host regenerates the MAC address.
Supported Versions
Managed destinations
ESX 3.x and 4.0
n
ESXi 3.x and 4.0 Installable and ESXi 3.x and 4.0
n
Embedded
vCenter Server 2.x and 4.0
n
Hosted destinations
VMware Workstation 5.x, 6.0.x, and 6.5.x
n
VMware Fusion 1.x and 2.x
n
VMware ACE 2.0.x and VMware ACE 2.5.x
n
VMware Player 1.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x
n
VMware Server 1.x and 2.x
n
OVF spec version 1.0
n
Local .ovf or .ova file
n
file, and a catalog file. Converter Standalone can restore
.vmx
file, nor the VMware log files.
.nvram
Table 2-5 also apply when restoring
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