Migrating VMWare VM’s to Hyper-V
VMWare and Microsoft offer competing products to build, run, and manage virtual machines (ex. Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare Server). Both products store virtual machine configuration and data in their own proprietary formats (ex. VMDK vs VHD) preventing you from running a virtual machine in one product (ex. Hyper-V) that was created in another (VMWare Server). This article outlines how to migrate a VMWare virtual machine to a Microsoft Hyper-V server:
- Shutdown your VMWare VM and remove it from inventory
- Convert the virtual disk from VMDK to VHD format
- Create a new Hyper-V VM that points to the converted VHD
- Boot up your new Hyper-V VM
- Uninstall VMWare Tools
- Install Hyper-V Integration Services if needed
- Configure the VM’s network card settings if needed (as the VM will now have a new network card)
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