convert Hyper-V VM to VMWare

[mla579]

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.

[beckham007fifa]

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.

[admin · Accepted solution]

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 :

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_conve...

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

[mla579]

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.

[f10]

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.

[rsemock]

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.

[sbaltic]

You can not convert from hyper-v server 2012 r2, just from 2012!!