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    <title>topic Hyper-V migration to VMware ESXi 6 in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225468#M216320</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a private testing enviroment with 2x Custom build servers, currently running Hyper-V 2012 R2.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The hosts are running some standard Windows VMs (2vCPUs, 4-8GB mem, etc...), but 2 of the VMs have each attached 9TB .vhdx for storage.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If im correct there was a limitation in the previous ESXi versions, only being able to attach a maximum of 4TB volumes to a guest VM - is this correct?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In ESXi 6 it looks like the maximum disk size on VMFS5 is 62TB, which is more than enough hosting the servers &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf" title="https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My question is:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I might want to migrate all the VMs on the Hyper-V hosts, to 2x standalone VMware ESXi 6 hosts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I currently dont have a Hyper-V cluster, so i dont need any redundancy that the V-Center might provide.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What limitations (if any) will i get, migrating the VMs to 2x standalone VMware hosts?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also what license will be best for my needs? &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks in advance &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:19:23 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>KSL28</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-04-12T14:19:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Hyper-V migration to VMware ESXi 6</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225468#M216320</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a private testing enviroment with 2x Custom build servers, currently running Hyper-V 2012 R2.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The hosts are running some standard Windows VMs (2vCPUs, 4-8GB mem, etc...), but 2 of the VMs have each attached 9TB .vhdx for storage.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If im correct there was a limitation in the previous ESXi versions, only being able to attach a maximum of 4TB volumes to a guest VM - is this correct?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In ESXi 6 it looks like the maximum disk size on VMFS5 is 62TB, which is more than enough hosting the servers &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf" title="https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My question is:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I might want to migrate all the VMs on the Hyper-V hosts, to 2x standalone VMware ESXi 6 hosts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I currently dont have a Hyper-V cluster, so i dont need any redundancy that the V-Center might provide.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What limitations (if any) will i get, migrating the VMs to 2x standalone VMware hosts?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also what license will be best for my needs? &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks in advance &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:19:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225468#M216320</guid>
      <dc:creator>KSL28</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-04-12T14:19:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Hyper-V migration to VMware ESXi 6</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225469#M216321</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you don't need redundancy you can choose Free vSphere Hypervisor.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;From limitations: maximum 8 vCPU per VM. But for testing &lt;SPAN style="color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;environment is important.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225469#M216321</guid>
      <dc:creator>iHumster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-04-13T15:09:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Hyper-V migration to VMware ESXi 6</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225470#M216322</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for your answer &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So i will be able to create theoretically 62TB vmdk files, for each VM - no regard of the licens? &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any other downsides in switching from Hyper-V to VMware?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:35:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225470#M216322</guid>
      <dc:creator>KSL28</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-04-13T17:35:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Hyper-V migration to VMware ESXi 6</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225471#M216323</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can have up to 64 vmdks each up to 62 TB each attached to each VM on a host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;While that is possible, I don't recommend that approach.&amp;nbsp; Keeping your vmdks down to a reasonable size will benefit you in multiple ways including options of migrating vmdks to other storage and working with snapshots if needed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also on your license needs you might consider looking at some of the essentials kits that are designed for a maximum of 3 hosts and include vcenter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/pd/productID.282883900" title="http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/pd/productID.282883900"&gt;Virtualization for Small Businesses - vSphere Essentials Kit&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:06:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Hyper-V-migration-to-VMware-ESXi-6/m-p/2225471#M216323</guid>
      <dc:creator>BrianNorth8</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-04-14T01:06:25Z</dc:date>
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