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V2V Converter Supported Virtual Disk Files Formats

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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Dmytro MalynkaStarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager
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