Hyper-V to VMWare ESXI

[cpjitservices]

Hi All,

 

Hope everyone is ok!

 

Just a quick one, whats the quickest way to migrate a Hyper-V machine to a VMWare ESXI machine. I've tried VMWare converter but no luck as it says version not supported!

 

Anyway I can import the VHDX files into ESXI ?

 

 

Thanks In Advance

 

Chris.

[Rodan]

Hi,

 

Without knowing the versions this is a bit of a guess but have you tried treating the Hyper-V VMs as physical machines and effectivly doing a P2V conversion?

 

Cheers

[cpjitservices]

Yes tried that Im trying to convert / migrate from 2012 Hyper-V to VMWare 5.1

 

Tried that got a weird message from converter asking me to try an earlier version of Hyper-V - so a P2V wont work. I've lifted the VHDX files form the server and they are on my local machine.

 

Any ideas how I can convert these and migrate them into ESXI ?

[Ric_]

I did this in our Luxembourg office... VMWare converter did the trick for us... took a hell of a long time mind. Are you sure you're doing it right and have the latest version of the converter?

[cpjitservices]

Yeah got converter off of VMWares site, Converter is 5.5.1. Ill show you the error message.

 

[fairm010]

I'd log on to the guest Hyper V vm and installed VMware converter then convert the 'local machine'.

[cpjitservices]

Wouldnt that just convert the Hyper-V host ? I dont want to do that I want the VM's from inside the host migrating to ESXI not the actual 2012 Server. ??

[pantscat]

Just treat them as physical machines and use VMware converter to convert them to VMs.

[cpjitservices]

Tried that... can't connect to them via IP as going through a virtual switch.

[pantscat]

I'm surprised that causes issues.

 

Do what @fairm010 suggested then - that'd do the job.

[fairm010]

Its what I did in my hyper v to VMware project

[cpjitservices]

Ok thanks guys, i've installed VMWare converter on my Hyper-V host and I'm treating the VM's like physical machines but i get an error which says Unable to contact specified host... but I can ping it and log in to it as Administrator ?

[pantscat]

Install vmware converter on each individual VM and then convert the local machine.

[fairm010]

i've installed VMWare converter on my Hyper-V host

 

Must be installed on each Guest. Are you using the IP of the management interface of the ESXi box?

[cpjitservices]

Sorted, yes Have installed converter on Hyper-V and have now got machines converting.. it was an Administrator account problem!!

 

Thanks everyone!