P2V Local and then import to ESXi4?

[tuscani]

Hope this isn't a dumb question.. Due to WAN speed, I am running a P2V local to an external drive with standalone convertor. The format I am using is Workstaion 8. Will I have any issues importing this onto a ESXi 4 host? Thanks!

[Sawkat]

nop you should not... provided you export them in any vmware recognise format...

[tuscani]

Awesome thanks!

[continuum]

dont do that - use WS 6.5 - 7 compatible instead.
If you follow the first tip you will have to downgrad virtual hardware again later .

Only use WS 8 format if you get paid per hour to do so

[tuscani]

Quick follow-up.. The local P2V ended up using SPARSE disks which didn't allow me to power on the VM after I uploaded the VMX\VMDKs to the datasotre.. I had to sVmotion into thin format to use the VM.