Migrate Hyper-V virtual machine cluster to VMware

[LeeClaytonlse]

I have a number of windows clusters that are on hyper-v. The shared storage is presented to the VM's via iscsi. I need to migrate these VM's to VMware and as the shared storage is via iscsi i assume i can just use converter to migrate the passive node, start the cluster on this node and then the storage will be fine, failver to this node then migrate the other VM.

I also want to get rid of using the iscsi storage so Ideally I would like to migrate the VM's and put the shared storage which is presented via iscsi directly as VMDK's or could I do this afterwards by doing a storage migration?

[markdjones82]

Convertor can convert just about any machine as long as it can get to it over the network.

I am not familiar with Iscsi do I don't know if they have a similar idea as RDM with FC which is presenting disk directly to the VM, but not sure why you would want to do that.

I assume you want to present the iscsi disk and put vmware's cluster filesystem on there VMFS?  If that is the case, just present the lun and when you go to add storage you will have the option to format it.

[LeeClaytonlse]

I've done many conversions with converter and normally hav clusters with RDM's which is ok but we want to get rid of the iscsi storage. I was hoping i could do the conversion keeping the iscsi storage then do a storage migration which would convert the iscsi to VMFS plus keeping the windows cluster working.

Or could I migrate the whole cluster, live, to VMFS/vmdk?

[markdjones82]

I wish I could help more but MSCS is not my area of expertise.  I would think you could convert the 2nd node while not active with all disks and set hte disk to be shared like in guide below.  Then convert the primary excluding the shared disks and then just add the shared VMDK and do a cutover.  It would require a brief downtime though.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-mscs-gu...