vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 launched.
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 includes the following new functionality:
- Support for virtual machine hardware version 10 (62TB disks, virtual SATA controllers, etc.)
- Support for RedHat KVM virtual machines as a source
- A new option for selecting the network adapter for the target virtual machine
- Support for additional guest operating systems
- Parallel disk conversions
Supported Guest Operating Systems
Converter Standalone 5.5 supports the following guest operating systems:
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Supported Operating Systems |
Converter Standalone Support |
Source for Powered On Machine Conversions |
Source for Virtua Machine Conversions |
Configuration Source |
| Windows XP Professional (32-bit and 64-bit) SP3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit) SP2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) SP2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) SP2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (32- bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ubuntu 12.x (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ubuntu 13.04 (32-bit and 64-bit) | No | Yes | Yes | No |
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