We are looking to migrate our 10 vm’s, currently on VMware, to Hyper-V. The host has to be stripped down to bare metal before installing the new hypervisor on it. The plan is to spin up a temporary server on a loaner machine, and migrate our critical VMs to the temp server to continue running our operations during the migration. My question is, how does one take a copy of the critical VM’s, and put them on the temp server if the temp server does not have Veeam or VMware? The temp server will have Hyper-V. Thank you.
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VMware to Hyper-V migration on temp server
+23You would either need Veeam on the temp host to be able to read the restore points to recover them into Hyper-V, or you would need to use Veeam to convert them to Hyper-V VMs on storage that you could use on the temp server to bring them up or copy them to local storage to run them.
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https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/instant_recovery_to_hv.html?ver=13
If you don’t currently use Veeam (VBR), you will need to spin a VM up on the Hyper-V server and assign storage to it either directly and use the Veeam “Default Repository” (it creates during install), or add a “Managed Server” with storage on it to your VBR server, and assign the Repository role to this server. Personally, since you only have 10 VMs though, I’d just add storage for your VBR server. Then, create a backup job, add all your VMs to this Job, and back them up to this Repository. When you’re ready to migrate your VMs to this new Host, run this Backup Job then power off your VMs (if you’re able) so they’re current. Get your new Host up & going with Hyper-V, then perform an Instant Recovery of those backups to your new Hyper-V server.
Hope that helps.
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