The estimated time remaining said "4 hours."
Actually, I didn't stop it. I did something riskier. I went into the advanced settings of the running job (which you can't really do, so I improvised). I realized the bottleneck was the source disk I/O. The old drives were dying.
The year was 2014. The IT landscape was a dusty plain of physical servers, and I was the designated "sherpa" tasked with moving a small law firm into the virtual age. vmware standalone converter
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Panic. If this ran past Monday morning, the lawyers would be unable to access their files, and I would be looking for a new job. The estimated time remaining said "4 hours
It didn't ask for praise. It didn't require a complex license server. It just took a physical world and turned it into code.
VMware Standalone Converter is useful in a variety of scenarios: I realized the bottleneck was the source disk I/O
I right-clicked the new VM in vCenter. Power On.
However, none offer the seamless that Converter Standalone provides for Windows servers.