Converting VM from ESXi to Hyper-V
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What's the best way to convert a VMware ESXi Free Guest that is server 2012 r2 to a Hyper-V Guest VM? I've tried StarWinds Converter with this one and it does not work. Any ideas? Everything else I did from scratch but this one needs to stay as is and just be moved if possible.
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Never tried it myself going VMW -> HV but there's a tool from MS that might help called "Disk 2 VHD"
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Doesn't seem to work with ESXi free. I might try putting a eval licences on it and see if it works.
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Removed the serial number which converts it back to a trial. It's exporting. We shall see if it actually works or not.
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It errors out after transferring about 20GB. The logs show Value of 'ErrorMessage' = 'Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed.' and ESXi shows Export OVF, Task was canceled by user.
And Here's the Verbose from the MVMC
System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed.
at Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.Engine.ForVMware.ExportLease.GetFiles(IDownloadAdapter adapter, String host, DirectoryInfo dirInfo, TaskContext taskContext)
at Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.Engine.ForVMware.VirtualMachine.DownloadFiles(IDownloadAdapter downloadAdapter, String toPath, TaskContext context)
at Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.Engine.ServiceLayer.Internal.MachineConversionService.ConvertToDrives(IMachineConversionRequest machineConversionRequest, IPostProgress& provisionHyperVPhase, IVirtualMachine& sourceVM, TaskContext taskContext) -
Should be able to do a full P2V.
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Darn. I got it over to Hyper-V but it just goes to automatic repair and won't boot to windows. I guess I should have removed VMware Tools first I forgot. Hopefully that's the only issue.
