5nine EasyConverter Changelog

What's new in 5nine EasyConverter 7.0.0.0

Nov 15, 2016
  • Non-intrusive conversion of VMware VMs to Hyper-V VMs and Azure (Azure Conversions supported in Full version).

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6.5 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Conversion speed improvements.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6.4 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Conversion speed performance improvements.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6.3 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Improved handling of VMs with complex names.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6.2 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • License activation requirement added for Full version.
  • Performance improvements

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6.1 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Windows 10 Support - Continued migration support for VMs running the latest Microsoft client operating system, Windows 10.
  • Expanded Linux Support - Migrate VMs running the latest versions of Red Hat (RHEL), CentOS and OpenSUSE.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 6 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Automatic Conversion into Highly Available Hyper-V VM - Make your virtual machines highly available by clustering your Hyper-V host servers. Use the new converting algorithm to place a VM right on the cluster after the conversion thus automatically making it highly-available. Perform fast and non-intrusive host to host conversion and fixup of selected VMware virtual machines to Microsoft Hyper-V VMs with the highest conversion success ratio.
  • Multiple ESXi Datastores Support - Use more than one ESXi datastore when required. No matter how many of them you virtual machine is using - stay assured that conversion process will be completed with the highest success ratio.
  • Localized Naming Support for Special Characters - Feel free to choose and set up the names according to your organization's requirements with the new support of a full set of special characters. The virtual disk download is now allowed when special characters was used in the guest name.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 5.3 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Performance Improvements - Meet the new version with several performance and reliability improvements. Improvements to copy speed and memory management were made, making it easier and faster to copy virtual machines with large virtual hard disks

New in 5nine EasyConverter 5.2 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Improved diagnostics

New in 5nine EasyConverter 5.1 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Improvements for Linux VMs conversions

New in 5nine EasyConverter 5.0 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Enhancements for migration of VMs residing on different data stores and using the same disk names

New in 5nine EasyConverter 4.4 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Performance Improvements

New in 5nine EasyConverter 4.3 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Improvements for Windows VMs conversions

New in 5nine EasyConverter 4.2 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Ability to perform simultaneous multiple VMs conversion via GUI (available in FULL version only)

New in 5nine EasyConverter 4.1 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Minor improvements for CentOS conversions

New in 5nine EasyConverter 4.0 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Discovery and Conversion of VMware VMs through vCenter version 5.0 or later
  • Ability to perform simultaneous multiple VMs conversion via API (available in FULL version only)

New in 5nine EasyConverter 3.4 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Support of Dynamic disks for VHDX

New in 5nine EasyConverter 3.3 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • Further increased conversion speed;
  • Improved diagnostics.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 3.1 (May 19, 2014)

  • Performance enhancements.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 3.0.1 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Extended diagnostic info for customers experiencing problems with disk files downloads.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 3.0 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • PowerShell API and Command line (available in FULL version only), specifically created for large scale conversions.

New in 5nine EasyConverter 2.0.5 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Race condition that caused tool to lockup at 100% of VM disk download for some environments is fixed;
  • Added support for EFI firmware VMs (vs. BIOS): such VMs are automatically converted to Generation 2 Hyper-V VMs (Windows Server 2012R2/Windows 8.1 Hyper-V host required for this to work); all IDE attached devices are converted to SCSI;
  • Network adapters are now correctly added to VM configuration in all cases and associated with selected Virtual Switch instance;
  • Added progress bar for VM disk conversion task;
  • Few other minor fixes based on the customer's feedback.