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55 As always with such efforts, be sure to carefully schedule the migration and expected down- time for the workloads you're migrating. Using a proven P2V conversion tool such as VMware® vCenter Converter™ can help you minimize downtime and maximize automation during your migration process. vCenter converter converts both Windows and Linux physical machines to a VMware virtual machine format and brings them into your VMware environment, auto- mating the migration process semi-transparently for your users. Using Traditional vs. Virtual Storage Shared storage improves availability and allows hyper- visors to leverage capabilities, such as VMware vMo- tion, to migrate running VMs across hosts for zero-downtime maintenance. Today, there are multiple options for shared storage: ✓ Traditional external SAN or NAS array: Compared to virtual storage, a storage-area net- work (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS) solution can be more expensive and require more technical expertise because they need specialized hardware and IT staff. For organizations with available capital and larger IT environments, tradi- tional arrays provide deduplication, array-based replication and unified storage offerings (for example, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel). ✓ Virtual storage: This option is simpler than SAN and NAS because you don't need to purchase, configure or maintain an external hardware array. For