Clonezilla
NCHC Free Software Labs
Open source
Cold - full outage for the whole copy
N/a
Smb estates
Workload P2V V2V
What it is good at
Boot both sides from the live ISO and clone disk-to-disk over the network. Works when no agent can be installed and the OS is unusual or unsupported.
Where it falls down
Full outage for the whole copy, manual driver and bootloader repair afterwards, no incremental sync.
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Open source — Free and open source; paid support optional.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost (GPL)
- Licence model
- GPLv2 open source live image.
- How to license it
- Download the ISO. Free, including commercial use.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://clonezilla.org/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- Physical desktop / workstation
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Proxmox VE
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- Oracle VirtualBox