Recently, while working with developing labs for a client who extensively used a virtual environment, I was asked to migrate the virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V. As I had very little experience with Hyper-V, it was a challenging task which took three weeks to complete. Satisfaction is one aspect of life which is achieved when we accept challenges and overcome the hurdles posed by them.
Additionally, there were some things that worked perfectly fine in VMware but could not be accomplished in Hyper-V; one thing that would not work is the router emulation software. The primary issue with the migration is related to the virtual-hard-disk format. Hyper-V requires VHD and VMware uses the VMDK format for its virtual machine hard disks. In order to overcome the hurdle of image conversion, I was in search of a tool which would assist in this conversion.
Fortunately, such a tool exists, and it's free! When you are building virtual machines, if you want to use another tool, or...