At this point we are not interested in the virtual machine but rather only in the Virtual disk. Once complete you will end up with a virtual machine and a virtual disk in VMware format (VMX and VMDK file). You will need to Google it or contact me. It looks like the above link is not working any longer and that particular version has been removed from the VMware site. This will be installed on the physical Windows 2000 server and brings the block-level copy capability that is needed as Windows 2000 does not support VSS. The first one is VMware VCenter Converter Standalone Client version 4.0.1. The easiest way to do this is a two step process that requires two tools you can download for free.
Hunting down older releases and figuring out which one is still supporting Windows 2000 also proves time consuming. Most vendors like Citrix, VmWare and Microsoft have removed the support from their respective solutions. To virtualise a physical Windows 2000 server poses a bit of a challenge these days.
