Download VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 build 292238

VMware released a new version of vCenter Converter Standalone a few days ago with 4.3 build 292238 as the version designation. This application allows you to turn a physical Linux or Windows installation into a VMware flavored virtual machine. It also supports virtual and third-party backup resources such as Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost, and Parallels Desktop. The abbreviated announcement of this release is as follows:

What’s New

The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 includes the following new functionality:

• Support for VMware vSphere 4.1 as source and destination targets
• Support for importing powered-off Microsoft Hyper-V R1 and Hyper-V R2 virtual machines
• Public API and sample code for submitting and monitoring Converter jobs
• Support for importing Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 sources
• Ability to throttle the data transfer from source to destination based on network bandwidth or CPU
• IPv6 support

Discontinued Support:

• Support for the following operating systems is discontinued:
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
• Support for OVF format is discontinued
• Support for VCB image sources is discontinued
• Linux installation support is discontinued