Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

re: Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

Lee Diggins — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:54:58 GMT

Mathieu Isabel + 100 :-)

Awesome advice. This is by far the easiest and fastest route to a vhdx. My system converted the 40GB vmdk in less than 2 minutes, Hyper-V manager took 5 minutes to convert from vhd to vhdx.

Many thanks,

Lee

re: Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

AlexL — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:51:09 GMT

Any update about ESXI 5.1?

I found this procedure from System Center 2012 SP1... And ESXI 5.1 is supported. May be this tools will be update soon?

technet.microsoft.com/.../gg610672.aspx

re: Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

Fat Dragon — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:33:23 GMT

Funny, but although the tool supports Hyper-V 2012 hosts, it doesn't support Windows Server 2012 guests :)

And it doesn't supports vSphere 5.1 hosts.

Is there any other reliable tool for converting vSphere 5.1 to Hyper-V 2012?

Thanks

re: Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

BruceWB — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:29:07 GMT

I'm using a desktop E6300 Dual Core 2.8Ghz with esxi 5.0, and an i5-2500 3.3Ghz workstation running vSphere/MVMC. MVMC took right at 3 hours to download a 120GB (57GB used) Server 2003 on a gigabyte network and 2.75 hours to convert it. I don't know how long it took to upload to hyper-v because it is still working on it .... It does seem really slow. Too slow. Uselessly slow. It is as if the tool exists to be able to claim that one can automatically convert from esxi to hyper-v but in practice I doubt I would ever use it (I'm evaluating, so want to see it run all the way through). I've done a few clonezillas (backup from esxi to usb drive, restore to hyper-v from usb drive) and I'm pretty sure it was done in under an hour. It would be nice to have a fully automated solution, however. I just don't think MVMC is there yet.

re: Free tool to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V based virtual machines and disks

Mathieu Isabel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:56:29 GMT

I've tried MVMC and the conversion tool in SCVMM and they're both really slow. It took around 3 hours for the V2V conversion of a 30GB VM. What I ended up doing is the following:

1) Download the vmdks using the vSphere Client by browsing the data store

2) Convert from vmdk to vhd using StarWind V2V Image Converter

3) Convert from vhd to vhdx by using the convert-vhd cmdlet

4) Recreate the VM in Hyper-v and mount the disk

Using that procedure the same conversion takes about 20-30 minutes depending on the resources available.