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markoneswift

35 posts

Geek

#181348 12-Oct-2015 10:47

Hi all, I have a question for anyone who has used MVMC 3.0 - I'm trying to convert a VM (running 2012R2) which has more than one VMDK attached to it from ESX 5.5. A single VMDK server conversion works fine, but a multi VMDK conversion only converts the primary VMDK and none of the others.

Has anyone experienced this and if so, did you overcome the problem ? I can convert VMDK > VHD using CLI but my problem is that the VMDK files are stored on a SAN on the ESX side so they are not directly accessible from the Hyper-V host where I would be running the commands from. Any ideas ?? Thanks...

Klathman

301 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1404198 12-Oct-2015 11:07

There's an update that you need to get which I think is version 3.2. I believe that the current version on the MS web site is this version even though it still says it's version 3.0. If you haven't downloaded it recently try again and compare the exe version numbers.

Just from my experience doing this though if you need to convert a large amount of data then it's still painfully slow. I ended up using the free version of 5nine Easy converter which was far quicker. It didn't install the latest guest integration pack but was still way quicker just to install that manually.

markoneswift

35 posts

Geek

#1404204 12-Oct-2015 11:12

Klathman: There's an update that you need to get which I think is version 3.2. I believe that the current version on the MS web site is this version even though it still says it's version 3.0. If you haven't downloaded it recently try again and compare the exe version numbers.

Just from my experience doing this though if you need to convert a large amount of data then it's still painfully slow. I ended up using the free version of 5nine Easy converter which was far quicker. It didn't install the latest guest integration pack but was still way quicker just to install that manually.

Thanks mate, yeah I downloaded the latest version which does seem to be 3.2. I'm amazed the converter doesn't just look at the VM, analyse how many VMDKs are attached to it and then convert them all over. I might give the 5nine product as try as I will need to convert all our VMDKs eventually when we go Azure....

Cheers

toyonut

1508 posts

Uber Geek

#1404250 12-Oct-2015 12:11

Starwind have a V2V converter too which is OK, I didn't find it faster or slower than MVMC through powershell. Otherwise, you could run disk2vhd on your running system to copy the disks to a network share, then build a new VM in Hyper-V with the converted VHD. That is a very fast way to go, but is an online conversion, so if the VM is in heavy use, it will miss changes made after the VSS snapshot is taken.
From my experience, if you are going to go into Azure, you want fixed size VHD images, not vhdx and not growable.

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