Citrix to Vmware Project

[AndronikosP]

Hi guys!

I have a question regarding Citrix to Vmware migration.

I have seen that if you wasn to migrate a Citrix VM to Vsphere then you need a converter ( Vmware Converter)

I want to ask if its possible to do this with another way?!?

I talked already with Support team but they are break / fix center and not deployments / migrations.

Have a nice day

Regards

Andronikos

[ThompsG]

Hi AndronikosP and welcome to the community!

I'm going to assume that you are wanting to convert a XenServer VM to VMware? In this case then VMware Converter is your best option depending on the workload running in the XenServer guest, i.e. if its a domain controller then deploy another domain controller as a VM on VMware then decommission the other.

There are other V2V options (PlateSpin was a popular one in the day) however VMware Converter has always worked for me.

Kind regards.

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

Look at the below helpful URLs:

How to migrate from Citrix XEN Server to vMWare Vsphere ESXi - YouTube

Migrating a Citrix XenServer VM to VMware - Spiceworks

[TomHowarth]

sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but the VM format between Xenserver and VMware is completely different,  the only realistic method of "Migrating" the XenServer VM's into a vSphere environment is via VMware Converter.

you will also depending on what Operating systems are in use on the Xenserver require multiple versions of VMware Converter from version 4 forwards.

[AndronikosP]

Yes we want to migrate DC / Fileserver / Sql Servers form Citrix XenServer to Vmware.

Thanks for your answer.

[ThompsG]

Hi AndronikosP,

File and SQL servers are no problems and V2V is an option. DC’s however I would be cautious on as mentioned. Way better to promote a new DC then demote the other once everything is working.

With the file servers you could also use something like RoboCopy to move the data to a new server.

If your current VMs are healthy then V2V is a good way to go and gives you a rollback. Just make sure that no data flows into the SQL server until you have confirmed a successful migration.

Kind regards,

Glen