If you\u2019ve had enough of the expensive VMware and want to get onto the enterprise and cloud ready Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V (which is effectively free if you\u2019re licensing your Windows Server VMs correctly end economically) then you\u2019ll want to convert those VMware VMs.\u00a0 You could use System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.<\/p>\n
Or you could use a tool that went into beta<\/a> kind of quietly back in April called the Virtual Machine Converter.<\/p>\n The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, standalone solution for converting VMware virtual machines (VMs) and VMware virtual disks (VMDKs) to Hyper-V virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDs). MVMC supports converting virtual machines using the following guest operating systems:<\/p>\n It supports vSphere 5.0 and 4.1 and:<\/p>\n Oh, it\u2019s a 3.93 MB download, and apparently<\/em> it was announced at TechEd just now that it would be freely available.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 Now there\u2019s no excuse to continue being VMlimited!<\/p>\n EDIT#1:<\/p>\n Damien Caro of Microsoft has blogged <\/a>on using the Virtual Machine Converter on the MSDN blogs. \u00a0Rather interestingly, there is a command line interface (MVDC.exe) allowing you to automate the conversion process.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve had enough of the expensive VMware and want to get onto the enterprise and cloud ready Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V (which is effectively free if you\u2019re licensing your Windows Server VMs correctly end economically) then you\u2019ll want to convert those VMware VMs.\u00a0 You could use System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Or you … Continue reading “Virtual Machine Converter Beta \u2013 Convert From VMware to Hyper-V”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,195,103],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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