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Like lee.moreau said, If you right click a guest server and selece 'Edit properties.', you are informed that you can only do that with the Web Client. Yes, I mean editing virtual machine basic properties.

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So it was our fault that we did not select the correct destination network vswitch, but I don't see in that page how to avoid the resulting virtual network adapters losing the physical network adapters IP data or MAC address. In that page it isР’В just mentioned that you can change the number of network adapters and select the network that these adapters will use. I am a small shop and I will start looking elsewhere right now. I have been a VMWARE user and defender for years, but this is too much for me.

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I don't know who decides these things in the software companies, but these are the kind of things that would make me look elsewhere for the solution.

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Tested successfully.Р”Р‡inally, a task that with the previous management paradigm would have taken 10 minutes only to me, instead it took me and a VMWARE expert almost two hours.Р”Р„nd to top the icing in the cake, when the VSphere web client transfer finishes, I try to install it on my computer and it asks for a VCenter SSO component of course I don't have, and then I can't use it either.

Then he rediscovers the server with the new vmx file and it boots up and connects right away. He downloaded the vmx file (fortunately this task is not 'advanced' enough to force us to do it with the web client), modified it for the network cards to be assigned to the correct virtual switch (another thing converter did wrong) and changed the MAC address to match the previous server network adapter MAC. While we wait he suggests an alterlative. Much less time to download, but still more than twenty minutes to transfer it to me via TeamViewer. He finds it, and it 'only' weighs ~520MB. I ask him to check the VCenter DVD to see if the VSphere Web Client exists as a separate installed. I contacted my virtualization partner and he confirmed that this works this way now.

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This weighs 3,4 GB!!!!! More than one hour download with my WAN speed.

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This software, as others in this thread have confirmed, only can be downloaded with the Vcenter ISO DVD. What lee.moreau and I were informed by the VSphere client as 'advanced features' include editing the guest server properties!!!!! So I can't modify hard drive size, network connections, network adapter switch assignments, network adapter MACs, etc!!!! Well, it just says I need to download the VSphere Web Client to do so, so I try.Р”Р„nd now the nightmare begins. This is an annoyance, in my opinion the converter should have a way to do this better, but well, no problem, I will modify the configuration of the new adapters to match the old adapters. Ok, I check the network adapters and find that the Converter Standalone has created two new network connections instead of inheriting the configuration from the physical connectors. I install them, but the machine still does not connect.

Well, no problem, I suppose it is because it is missing the VMWare tools. I shut down the physical server and booted up the virtual server with the VSphere client without any problems. I did a P2V yesterday and needed to test it this morning. I am trying very hard to not be negative about my answer, but what has happened to me today almost would make me forget VMWARE exists as a company completely. Yeah, I was hit hard with this issue this morning. And ultimately, you can still manage ESXi free from the traditional client - many SMBs don't really need any of the advanced features. You can get a vSphere Essentials kit, which gives you licensing for 3 ESXi hosts (with up to 2 CPUs each) and a single vCenter server, for ~$500:Р”Р„nd last I checked, Workstation was still less than $100 for a license. Kind of crazy though for small business, how you can use ESXi but then they say features are missing if you use the Windows application, but if you go to their site and try to buy vCenter it says it's like $6044 lol.

So just confusing that the system tells you to download it, and then it says it's old, so thought maybe I was missing something obvious. It's just confusing how they do it because when you access the server in the browser after a fresh install, it goes on about using the web client there, and then says download vSphere manager or whatever it is to manage your VMs, but you download it from the link it gives you, and when you run that program, it says the message about this program is old and you should use the web client etc.