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Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 4, 2022

StarWind V2V Converter for PV2 and V2V

VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: P2V, StarWind V2V, Starwind V2V Converter Free Tool, V2V

Interview with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 22, 2010

Double Take becomes a part of Vision Solutions. Double Take software was acquired earlier this year by Vision Solutions. I had a chance to be introduced with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions and he replied on some of my questions I asked about. @vladan. So let me introduce yourself. What’s your name and what’s your […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Continuous replications, DR solutions, P2V, V2V, Vision Solutions

“Error unable to access a file since it is locked” – how did I do to save my day

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 27, 2009

I had this error in my lab when I was trying to power on a virtual machine with Exchange 2007 installed in it. It’s a testing VM. Since It’s testing VM I did not keep any backup for this VM. I might should….. -:( But then… what to do? I had two options: 01. Google […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Data Recovery VM, unable to access a file since it is locked, V2V, Vmdk, VmWare Converter

Starwind V2V Converter – easily convert your VMs from VHD to VMDK

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2009

StarWind V2V Converter helps you to convert VHD to VMDK and vice versa. So if You are Hyper-V or Virtual PC user you can convert your virtual hard disks to VMware VMDK format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image, but creates […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind, Starwind V2V converter, V2V, V2V Converter

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