Technically the converter converts that whole physical machine in to a software Hard Disk of type. Vmware Converter, to those who are not familiar with it, is a tool produced by Vmware that will help you convert a physical machine to a VM (virtual machine), it is a very handy tool if you are running a Vmware datacenter, converting a Physical machine to a VM provides you with mobility for the machine that once was very hard to move or transfer, preserve old software that is running on old risky hardware, Moreover a nice feature is that the Hard Disk real size would be the size of the data inside it, i.e a physical machine that has a 1 TB HDD but has only a 70 GB data would have a VMDK file of 70 GB in size, of course i will not go in to the general benefits of virtualization.
This quick tip assumes that you are familiar with virtualization and have basic Linux knowledge, but even if you are not, go on and read it, it is basic level and easy to implement. vmdk file on an external HDD that you need to access to pick up some files and don’t want to mount it with a virtual machine player?
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