ESXI to Hyper-V
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Have any of you made the transition? I'm about to give it a shot and wanted to know if anyone had any advice or knew what caveats to avoid?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=42497 looks promising.
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We moved from VMware ESXi to a mixture of Azure and XenServer internally. We would have a lot on HyperV if we were running production in house but these days that all gets hosted.
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@GregoryHall has done quite a few conversions.
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@hubtechagain said:
Have any of you made the transition? I'm about to give it a shot and wanted to know if anyone had any advice or knew what caveats to avoid?
I was going to use that to convert a client back in March, but when I was on site doing some prep work, I found myself in a DR scenario due to a misconfigured RAID array. I ended up doing a Backup/restore with Windows Server Backup.
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so using backup it converted the VMs?
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@hubtechagain said:
so using backup it converted the VMs?
Well, It made a normal Windows backup image to a NAS. Then I booted a new Hyper-V VM to the original Server 2008 media and went through the recovery process. That process is designed to handle installing to different hardware in the first place.
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awesome! and easy to test out on a live system
thanks JB i'll give that a go. -
In my home environment I made the switch
First because I've always used ESXI I wanted to learn/try something new.
Gotta say, huge fan.
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I'm a long-time VMware guy here too... Hyper-V vs VMware would be a tough argument for me. VDI just seems much easier in Hyper-V than VMware... But for straight up server virtualization, to me, Hyper-V wins on pricing.
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Just to put it into the conversation here, Microsoft has a tool to convert your ESXi VM's to Hyper-V.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Gg610672.aspx
Now I haven't used it, but it's at least looking into if you must V2V your VM's.
