Hi,
I need to transfer couple of VMs from Hyper-V (Server 2008R2) to vSphere 5.1.
I did this last year... may be I forgot something. But in my head I think I installed a plugin into vCenter and than made the conversion from vCenter.
May be it is in my dream and I used just old way with installing converter on VM to be converted...
Please refresh my mind.
If there is no option for transferring without converter installation on VM please provide a link to latest converter.
Thx.
Michael.
Hi Michael,
you might have used the converter plugin on the vCenter server, try using the standalone converter. treat the Hyper- V VM as a Physical VM ie power it on and then use the convereter
Download link for converter :
Links of the KB article’s below which would help you to increase the performance of the converter and speed up the process.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004588
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2020517
Thanks,
Avinash
VMware convertor is the best way. Yeah, same enable the plugin, then import and select Hyper V as the source and migrate. It should work flawlessly.
Hi Michael,
you might have used the converter plugin on the vCenter server, try using the standalone converter. treat the Hyper- V VM as a Physical VM ie power it on and then use the convereter
Download link for converter :
Links of the KB article’s below which would help you to increase the performance of the converter and speed up the process.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004588
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2020517
Thanks,
Avinash
Just to be sure...
If using plugin, would the converter be copied to source VM.
Or converter will actually be installed in vSphere client?
Thank you both.
Standalone Converter can be installed on any windows machine in the same network. I prefer to install it on the same VM that I am converting to minimize issues related to network ports required by Converter.
I installed it on the hyper-v host and specified the VM I want to convert but it does not take the login info complaining that the admin$ credential is invalid. I tried the local admin and an admin user on the vm but neither work.
You can not convert from hyper-v server 2012 r2, just from 2012!!