#VCP Use case is to virtualize physical workloads to VMs. Can also be used to migrate workloads and export VMs managed by vCenter to ovf. The software itself is free. ## Physical to Virtual(P2V) Migration Most common use case to migrate a physical server to a VM inside a vSphere environment. ![[_media/vSphere - VMware vCenter Converter2024-07-28.png|vSphere - VMware vCenter Converter2024-07-28.png]] ## Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Migration less common option that is used with the converter. This option will migrate VMs from one virtualization platform to the other, for example from ESXi to VMware Workstation or from Hyper-V to VMware. Improves flexibility and minimizing downtime. ## Disaster Recovery Can be used to create replicas of Workloads that are then used to recover from outages. ## Other use cases - Cloud migration - can be used to move VMs to cloud environments such as AWS or Azure. - Server consolidation - consolidate multiple physical servers onto a single host. - Legacy Application Support - legacy applications run on older hardware platforms, these can be converted to virtual Machines to be able to run on non-legacy hosts. ## 🔗Resources