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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


coolsport00
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  • June 21, 2026

Hi ​@alan.thompson - just following up on your post here. Were any of the comments posted able to help answer your question? If any of the comments helped you out, we ask you please mark one as ‘Best Answer’ to help anyone else in the Community who may have the same question/issue.

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