VMware VCENTER CONVERTER STANDALONE 4.3 User Manual page 58

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone User's Guide
Procedure
1 From the Data copy type drop-down menu, select Select volumes to copy.
2 Delete the disk.
Option
Preserve the volumes associated
with the disk
Delete the volumes associated with
the disk
3 Save your settings.
Option
Select another option from the
options list
Click Next
Converter Standalone creates
preserve.
Copy All Disks to the Destination
To preserve the source disks on the destination virtual machine, you can copy all disks to the destination.
Disk-based cloning is not available for powered-on machine sources.
Prerequisites
On the Options page of the Conversion wizard, click Data to copy in the options list.
Procedure
1 From the Data copy type drop-down menu, select Copy all disks and maintain layout.
2 (Optional) If the destination datastore is low on disk space, click a virtual disk and select a different
datastore from the Destination datastore drop-down menu.
N You must have access to more than one datastore to move a disk to a different datastore.
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3 Save your settings.
Option
Select another option from the
options list
Click Next
Converter Standalone copies the disks to the selected datastores and preserves the source disk layout.
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Description
a Click Advanced and select the Destination layout tab.
b Move the volumes from the disk you want to delete to another virtual
disks.
c Highlight the empty disk and click Remove disk.
a Click Advanced and select the Source volumes tab.
b Deselect the volumes associated with the disk that you want to delete.
Description
Saves your settings and displays the pane for the selected option.
Saves your settings and displays the next page of the Conversion wizard.
The Customizations page is displayed if you select Customize guest
n
preferences for the virtual machine in the Advanced options pane.
The Summary page is displayed if you do not select Customize guest
n
preferences for the virtual machine in the Advanced options pane.
files in the destination datastore only for the virtual disks you selected to
.vmdk
Description
Saves your settings and displays the pane for the selected option.
Saves your settings and displays the next page of the Conversion wizard.
The Customizations page is displayed if you select Customize guest
n
preferences for the virtual machine in the Advanced options pane.
The Summary page is displayed if you do not select Customize guest
n
preferences for the virtual machine in the Advanced options pane.
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