topic Re: VM Migration from Hyper-V to vCenter in Converter Standalone Discussions

VM Migration from Hyper-V to vCenter

mwilks — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 19:38:34 GMT

I am looking for some assistance or to even see if it is possible.

A few days ago, I migrated a server (Fileserver) from Hyper-V to vCenter. I had some issues that I have been working through and I finally was able to make everything work. Now that I am ready to make this server go live, I was wondering if there is a way to migrate the changes that have occurred over the last couple of days to this new server? Due to the size of the drive, it takes roughly 12 hours to migrate and I do not want to have to migrate the entire server over again. I appreciate an help that I can get.

Re: VM Migration from Hyper-V to vCenter

scott28tt — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:47:36 GMT

How did you do the migration in the first place?

Can’t you do a file level backup/restore within Windows to let that process handle changes since?

Re: VM Migration from Hyper-V to vCenter

mwilks — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:09:15 GMT

I used the VMWare Standalone Convertor to do the original migration. I may be able to, I didn't think of that. I was just curious as if there is actually a VMWare tool that works in conjunction with the convertor that would handle the changes.

Re: VM Migration from Hyper-V to vCenter

fabio1975 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:18:46 GMT

Ciao

it is not a VMware tool, but I have used it in the past
Microsoft Storage Migration Service

Migrate a file server by using Storage Migration Service | Microsoft Docs

if I'm not mistaken you can use it even if you have already made a first copy by hand
Or use the classic robocopy.