Migration is the hardest part. We make it the easiest.
Moving from vSphere to a new platform is the single biggest barrier most organisations face when considering alternatives. The cost of the platform itself is usually a fraction of the cost of the migration, both in engineering time and in operational risk.
Netframe Converter exists to compress that cost. It is a purpose-built tool that handles the unsexy parts of VMware migration, network policy translation, storage format conversion, driver injection, validation, rollback, so your engineers can focus on the business outcomes, not the plumbing.
And critically: Converter is free, bundled with Netframe Core, with no per-VM or per-migration fees. The migration tooling should not be the obstacle to a migration.
- Free, no per-VM fees, no expiry
- Live cutover with sub-second freeze
- Full vSphere 8.x support
- Bulk migration with wave scheduling
Five phases, plannable, repeatable.
Connect to your vCenter (read-only credentials). Converter inventories your VMs, networks, datastores, and resource pools.
Map source networks and storage to Netframe targets. Group VMs into migration waves with dependencies.
Migrate a small representative group of VMs end-to-end. Validate. Use the operational experience to tune wave plans.
Execute migration waves on your schedule. Cold for predictable windows, warm or live for production cutover.
Validate post-migration. Run side-by-side as long as you need. Retire source VMs when confident.
Built for serious vSphere environments.
vSphere 6 / 7 / 8 support
Full coverage of vSphere 6.0 through 8.x source environments, including vSAN-backed VMs and distributed switches.
Network policy translation
Distributed virtual switch port groups, VLAN tags, and traffic shaping policies map cleanly onto Netframe network profiles.
Storage format conversion
Thin/thick provisioned VMDK to qcow2 or raw. Per-VM source-to-target datastore mapping with tier overrides.
Live cutover
Migrate while the source VM is still running. Final freeze window is typically seconds, not minutes.
Bulk migration
Wave-based scheduling: define groups, dependencies, and parallel concurrency. Built for moving hundreds of VMs in one weekend.
Rollback capability
Source VMs are preserved (powered off or snapshotted) until you explicitly retire them. Roll back any VM at any time.
Migration reports
Per-VM and per-wave migration reports with timing, throughput, and post-migration validation status.
Validation hooks
Optional pre- and post-cutover validation: ping, port-check, HTTP, custom scripts. Roll back automatically on validation failure.
Coverage of every vSphere environment we have seen.
- Source environments
- VMware vSphere / vCenter 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0, 8.x
- Source storage
- VMFS, NFS, vSAN, vVols
- Source networking
- vSwitch, Distributed Switch (vDS), NSX-T (with bridging)
- Target
- Netframe Core or Netframe Manager-managed clusters
- Concurrency
- Configurable per-wave; tested to 32 parallel VM migrations per source vCenter
- Migration modes
- Cold migration, warm migration with brief cutover, live migration with sub-second freeze
- Guest OS
- Any vSphere-supported guest; Netframe drivers installed automatically (Linux / Windows)
- Licence
- Free, bundled with Netframe Core. No per-VM fees, no time-bombed evaluation.
Plan your migration with confidence.
Download Converter free, or talk to our migration team about a structured engagement for larger estates.