Virtual Machine Converter

Abstract

Act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to only virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources is known as Virtualization. Virtualization is a much-discussed area of technology which is helped by the current success of x86 server virtualization products such as VMware ESX Server, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. The major goal of this process (virtualization) is to manage workloads by transforming traditional computing to make it more scalable. For so many years, there has been a battle between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. In general, vSphere has won the feature battle, although Hyper-V is certainly not much behind; the product can hold its own and does hold its own for many organizations that have made the decision that its the right solution for their needs. But still, Hyper-V is not the first choice of many organizations. Organizations depends a lot on VMware virtualization products. As VMware is popular as compared to Hyper-V, its upgrades are also popular and even expensive than the Hyper-V. There comes the question of economy where many organizations have to invest in these costly upgrades and spend a lot of their assets. Therefore, we propose to build an application which will help in minimizing the costs of these upgrades and will help Hyper-V to evolve more into this tech-world. In this project, we propose to develop this application, Virtual Machine Converter which will convert the Virtual Machines files (.vmdk) to Hyper-V Machines Files (.vhdx) enabling Hyper-V to evolve more as VMware has evolved.