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P2V migration with Free ESXi?

Posted: Mon May 26, 2025 4:19 am
by AllenBeasley
I have ESXi running from an internal flash drive on a Dell R310.
On the "C" drive of the server (A RAID 1 250 GB drive set), I have an instance of Windows 2012r2.
Can someone ELI5 how I would spin up the Windows? ESXi doesn't actually "see" it so I am unsure of where to even start.
Also, is the P2V tool free like ESXi or does it only come with paid versions of VMware?
Thank you!

Re: P2V migration with Free ESXi?

Posted: Mon May 26, 2025 6:38 am
by yaroslav (staff)
ESXi cannot work with NTFS.
You cannot p2v an ESXi host unfortunately.