V2V Converter Supported Virtual Disk Files Formats
- Explanation
- April 30, 2015
Supported Virtual Disk Files Formats
StarWind V2V converter is compatible with multiple hypervisor products. Below is the list of supported virtual disk formats:
- VMware growable image
Designed to run in VMware Workstation`s environments. Disk space for this image is allocated on demand, so disk size of this image grows over time. It has *.vmdk extension.
- VMware pre-allocated image
Designed to run in with VMware Workstation`s environments. Disk space for this image is allocated at the moment of its creation and is fixed. It has *.vmdk extension.
- VMware ESX server image
Designed to run in with VMware vSphere environments. Disk space for this image is allocated at the moment of creation and it is fixed. It has *.vmdk extension.
- Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk growable image
Designed to be used with Hyper-V virtual machines. Disk space for this image is allocated on demand, so disk size of this image grows over time. It has *.vhd extension.
- Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk pre-allocated image
Designed to be used with Hyper-V virtual machines. Disk space for this image is allocated at the moment of its creation and is fixed. It has *.vhd extension.
- Microsoft VHDX image
Designed to be used with Hyper-V 3.0 virtual machines. Disk space for this image is allocated on demand, so disk size of this image grows over time. It has *.vhdx extension.
- Raw Image (.img)
This image is format is suitable for StarWind Virtual SAN™, Disk space for this image is allocated at the moment of its creation and is fixed. It has *.img extension
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