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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By : EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By: EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can more easily and efficiently manage your applications and services across multiple hypervisors as well as across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.This cookbook covers architecture design and planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy, and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors: Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi, and Citrix XenServer. It also includes the VMM 2012 SP1 features.This book is a cookbook that covers architecture design, planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors : Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi and Citrix XenServer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Converting VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V


You can convert any virtual machine running on a VMware ESX host or stored in the VMM library, but VMM does not support virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversion of a VMware VM that has an Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) bus.

The following versions of VMware ESX are supported for V2V conversions by VMM 2012 SP1:

  • ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 5

  • ESX/ESXi 4.0

  • ESX/ESXi 4.1

  • ESX/ESXi 5.0

  • ESXi 5.1

Note

Before you convert a VMware VM to a Hyper-V VM, you must uninstall VMware Tools on the source VM.

This recipe will guide you on how to convert a VMware VM to a Hyper-V VM through the V2V conversion process.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to convert VMs:

  1. On the VMs and Services workspace in the VMM console, on the Home tab in the ribbon, click on Create Virtual Machine and then on Convert Virtual Machine.

  2. On the Select Source page in Convert Virtual Machine Wizard, click on Browse and select the VMware VM that is to be converted.

  3. Click on OK; then, in the Select...