V2v conversion - hyper-v to vmware esxi using vmware converter

For our purposes, the Powered off option is selected and Hyper-V Server is chosen from the drop-down menu. Specify the server connection information — enter the IP address or the name of your Hyper-V server, then input the username and password of an account with administrative permissions for the Hyper-V server.

Click Next to continue. A pop-up window appears. VMware vCenter Converter asks you how you want to uninstall the agent after conversion is completed automatically or manually.

Select your preferred option and click Yes to continue. Wait until the agent is deployed on the Hyper-V Server.

Select the source machine. Once the agent is deployed, you can see a list of virtual machines residing on your Hyper-V Server. In this walkthrough, the Ubuntureplica VM is selected for further conversion.

This VM is powered off and meets the requirements. After selecting your source VM, click Next. Set the parameters for the destination virtual machine — set the name and location of the VM datacenter or folder.

Then click Next to continue. Select the datastore attached to that ESXi server and specify the virtual machine version. VM version 11 is suitable for ESXi 6. Click Next. Data to Copy. You can select the data copy type disk-based or volume-based , the disk provisioning type Thick or Thin , and the destination datastore for your virtual disks. The Thick disk type is selected by default.

In this section, you can set the amount of virtual memory, the number of virtual processors, the number of cores per processor, and the disk controller for the VM. You can select the number of virtual network adapters for the VM and specify the networks to which they should be connected, as well as virtual network controller type.

This option is available only for Windows-based destination machines; it allows you to select a startup mode for each Windows service. Advanced options.

These options can be configured for Windows OS machines. This option lets you preserve enough processor resources to run other tasks if need be. Network bandwidth throttling allows you to control network bandwidth; this can be useful in cases where you want to keep your network-related services and applications functioning properly during conversion.

This may be useful if you need to convert a large number of machines and the destination machines must have thin-provisioned disks. To this option, do the following:. Alternatively, you could run services. Check the summary. If you are satisfied that all the settings are correct, click Finish to start conversion. You can now view the status of your conversion job in the main windows of VMware vCenter Converter.

Specify the IP address and also the local administrator credentials of the remote windows machine. You can choose one of the options for uninstalling Converter agent. Once converter agent is installed on the remote windows machine. I have connected to one of my vCenter Server vCenter 6. Specify the name of the destination VM and Select the datacenter location to deploy the virtual machine.

Select the ESXi host or cluster and Datastore to place the converted virtual machine. You can even choose the Virtual machine Hardware version from the drop-down. Wizard will display the current configuration. You can click on Edit option to edit the parameters for the conversion task.

You can even select or deselect the volumes to copy during the P2V or V2V migration. Source windows server contains only one hard disk with C: drive and system partition. Click on Destination volume to edit the disk information. One more option is you can change the Virtual machine disk format too. Select the virtual machine port group to connect to the destination converted virtual machine.

There are many services such as Hardware related agents or services running on your physical hardware. It will not be needed once it is converted to a virtual machine. If the modern operating system is installed on a source machine, you can select the latest available virtual machine version hardware version for the destination VM. The virtual machine version that can be selected also depends on a version of the destination ESXi host. Step 5: Options. This step allows you to select the following options for the destination VM:.

Data to copy. Select which disks and volumes you want to copy. You can select thick or thin provisioning type for destination virtual disks you should select advanced view and resize volumes if needed. In this example, a physical disk that contains two volumes is converted to a thin provisioned virtual disk. It is recommended that you tick the checkboxes:. You can select the number of virtual processors, processor cores, virtual disk controllers, and memory size.

Select networks to which virtual network adapters of the VM must be connected. On the Source Services tab, you can select which running services on the source Windows machine to stop before starting P2V conversion with VMware Converter. On the Destination Services tab, you can select the startup mode for services on the destination VM.

Advanced options. There are two tabs — Synchronize and Post-conversion. In the Post-conversion tab, you can set the power state for a source machine and destination machine after P2V conversion is finished.

The Post-conversion processing options are:. Throttling allows you to perform your usual tasks during the conversion process. Step 6: Summary. Check your settings for the new machine conversion job you created and if everything is correct, click Finish to start conversion in VMware Converter. After machine conversion is started, wait until the conversion process is fully completed.

The time needed for conversion depends on the amount of data stored on the source machine disks and network speed. Now that a Windows machine is converted, power on the destination VM if you have not selected to power on the VM automatically during conversion job creation. As you recall, in our example we have selected to install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine automatically. This means that VMware Tools are in the process of being installed.

VMware Tools have been installed successfully. It is recommended that you remove all vendor-specific software and drivers used on the physical machine before. Hence, you can convert a VM, even if a remote physical machine running the hypervisor has Linux or macOS installed as a host operating system.

Run VMware Converter as administrator and click Convert machine. The Conversion Wizard will open. Then, browse the virtual machine configuration file the VMX file. You can view source details if needed. On each step, click Next to continue configuring the conversion job.