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Restore a VMWare VM to Hyper-V

  • June 8, 2026
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Simple question, but I don’t think this is possible from reading up about this, there is a great video on migrating, but I think this assumes you still have the old VMWare infrastructure as well as your destination Hyper-V. So, the question is then, can you restore a full backup of a VMWare VM, onto Hyper-V? Assume pre-reqs like removing vmware tools are taken care of, but the actual conversion to Hyper-V can this be done without running your source VMW environment?

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CMF
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  • June 8, 2026

Hi ​@alan.thompson

You can restore a VMware VM via instant recovery to a Hyper-V Server. 

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/instant_recovery_to_hv.html?ver=13

Regards

Chalid


kciolek
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  • June 8, 2026

Yes - you should be able to. i recently did this on my lab server


eblack
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  • June 8, 2026

For sure, we do it all the time, just follow the prereqs. We did need to script the tool removal. There’s a post out there somewhere from me on it. 


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  • June 8, 2026

Hi ​@alan.thompson

You can restore a VMware VM via instant recovery to a Hyper-V Server. 

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/instant_recovery_to_hv.html?ver=13

Regards

Chalid

Thanks, I think - but does this not require the existing VMWare infrastructure to be running also?


CMF
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  • June 8, 2026

Hi ​@alan.thompson

You can restore a VMware VM via instant recovery to a Hyper-V Server. 

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/instant_recovery_to_hv.html?ver=13

Regards

Chalid

Thanks, I think - but does this not require the existing VMWare infrastructure to be running also?

No it doesn´t because you are restoring from a backup and not replicating an existing VM