Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine

A newly created virtual machine must have a destination to be stored in. When you set up a conversion task, you must select a destination.

Converter Standalone retains the last selected destination and displays that destination the next time you create a conversion task. Use the drop-down menus to change the destination if necessary.

Converter Standalone does not support as destinations clusters and cluster-level resource pools. If you are converting a virtual machine to run on a cluster that vCenter Server manages, select an ESX host within the cluster. When you use a VMware DRS cluster as a destination, set VMware DRS Power Management (DPM) to manual to avoid DPM powering off the ESX hosts that Converter Standalone uses. When the conversion process completes, restore DPM to its original settings.

Note

For Linux P2V conversion tasks, the only supported destination is a VMware Infrastructure virtualization product.

 

 

■	Supported Destination Types

Converter Standalone can create virtual machines compatible with VMware hosted and managed products. Converter Standalone can also create virtual appliances for Internet distribution.

■	Select a VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine Destination

To create a virtual machine to run on an ESX host that vCenter Server manages or on a standalone ESX host, select a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine destination.

■	Select a VMware Workstation or Other VMware Virtual Machine Destination

You can create a standalone virtual machine or Workstation virtual machine to run outside an ESX host or an ESX host that vCenter Server manages.

■	Select a Virtual Appliance Destination

You can export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance, making it available to other users to import into their inventories. The resulting virtual appliance is an OVF 1.0 appliance and contains one virtual machine.

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