VMware Cold Clone to convert your physical machines, where to get it?
Where to download VMware Cold Clone.
You cannot do a hot conversion every time. Sometimes you need to perform a cold clone to convert your physical servers. Then you’re asking, where to get the converter cold clone boot CD?
So, there exists the cold-clone disc. This is a bootable CD-ROM disc that you actually boot the physical server from. The disc contains a pre-installed Windows 2003 image that runs a built-in version of Converter. Since you boot from the CD, none of the server’s processes start-up so you can get a good clone of the hard drive.
In case you want to download you must go and:
- Use Converter 3.0.x Standalone Enterprise Edition from http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=CONVERTER3.
- Use the VMware vCenter Converter Boot CD for vCenter Server. The most recent version is at http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VC250U4.
Make sure that you log-in before you download. This means that you have to have an Store account, that means that you have already bought some product with VMware before.
Source: VMware
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The enterprise edition of Converter is not free and is only available to customers who own vCenter Server. Also the cold clone OS is not Win2003 but is a special version of Windows called Windows PE that is based on Vista. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766093(WS.10).aspx