VMware vCenter Converter New Releases
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 | 30 Aug 2010 | Build 292238
Release Notes - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 User’s Guide
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 of 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
In addition there is a new SDK that was made available
vCenter Converter Standalone SDK
The VMware vCenter Converter SDK is a programmatic interface to manage the conversion operations. The API is exposed as a Web service running on vCenter Converter server systems. The SDK includes comprehensive documentations as well as Java and C# samples that demonstrate common use cases for programmatically managing VMware VCenter Converter. Support Information: vCenter Converter SDK is a forum supported only SDK.
The Converter Standalone SDK includes the Converter Standalone API and Java and C# samples that demonstrate features of Converter Standalone server. The Converter Standalone SDK enables developers to evolve their applications to support new server features while maintaining compatibility with older server versions.
I guess this will be one of many new releases this week. Stay tuned…