Appendix A P2V migration compatibility matrixes

Operating system compatibility matrix

Type

OS versions

Remarks

Windows

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86/x64

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86/x64

  • Windows Server 2008

  • Windows Server 2008 SP1 x64

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows Server 2012 x64

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 x64

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2016 x64

P2V migration is also compatible with the unlisted versions that belong to a major version in the version list.

P2V migration is incompatible with Windows desktop versions.

Linux

Redhat 4/5/6 32bit

Redhat 4/5/6/7 64bit

Centos 6 32 bit

Centos 6/7 64 bit

Ubuntu 10/12/14 32bit

Ubuntu 16 64bit

NeoKylin (X86) 5.0/6.0/6.5/6.7/V7 64bit

Kylin Server (X86) 3.2/6.7 64bit

RedFlag 5.0 32bit

RedFlag 6.2/6.3/7.0 64bit

RedFlag axws3-64

Suse  10/11 32bit

Suse  10/11/12 64bit

The kernel version must be between 2.6.18 and 4.14.0.

P2V migration is also compatible with customized Linux versions not in the version list as long as they pass POC test, such as the operating systems customized based on the core management suite of Redhat, CentOS, or Ubuntu Linux.

P2V migration is compatible with the Linux operating systems running on both servers and desktops.

 

Source disk and file system compatibility

Source disk compatibility

Item

Compatibility with migration/disaster recovery

Local disk

Yes

iSCSI/FC LUN

Yes

Multipathed logical volume

Yes

LVM/LVM2 logical volume

Yes

Spanned volume

Yes

NFS/CIFS/Samba network shared directory

No

 

File system compatibility

Item

Compatibility with standard migration/disaster recovery

Compatibility with fast migration/disaster recovery

EXT2/EXT3/EXT4

Yes

Yes

XFS

Yes

Yes

FAT/FAT32

Yes

Yes

NTFS

Yes

Yes

ReiserFS

Yes

Yes

Raw disk

Yes

No

 

Source host compatibility

You can migrate physical servers and VMs created by mainstream hypervisors such as VMware and Xen to CAS.