The following figure illustrates how migration technology operates in principal.

 

The orange box at the top of the figure represents migration process and consists of tools and human tasks the must be completed. While there might be single tools that support a full migration from physical or any other environment to the cloud, for the VMware tools described here, there is no use case called P2C. However, it is achievable as a two-phase process through combining P2V and V2C together. The P2V use cases supported by VMware vCenter® Converter™ are W2V (Windows-to-virtual), L2V (Linux-to-virtual), V2V (virtual-to-virtual), and V2C (virtual-to-cloud). Technologies in play for each type of infrastructure include vCenter Converter APIs for physical hosts (Linux and Windows) and vSphere APIs for writing new VMs or extracting to OVF format for vCloud APIs.