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you cannot plug a usb drive directly into the host. &nbsp;If you like you can place the usb drive onto a different machine and login to VMware Client. &nbsp;Browse datastore and you can download the VMs to the USB drive from there.
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you cannot plug a usb drive directly into the host.  If you like you can place the usb drive onto a different machine and login to VMware Client.  Browse datastore and you can download the VMs to the USB drive from there.

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Yeah I know I could do that, I was just hoping I could do it directly because the files are huge. Do you know if the VM has to be offline to copy?
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Yeah I know I could do that, I was just hoping I could do it directly because the files are huge. Do you know if the VM has to be offline to copy?

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Why don't you use Microsoft tools to convert directly to a vhd?<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx</a>
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Why don't you use Microsoft tools to convert directly to a vhd?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx]

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I want to convert VMs running on a esxi 5.1 host to Hyper-V. I was hoping to copy the files to an attached USB drive plugged directly into the host. and then copy the VMs to a hyper-v server and do a convertion to .vdh<br />
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How do I get the USB drive to be recognized by the host so I can do a direct copy?
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I want to convert VMs running on a esxi 5.1 host to Hyper-V. I was hoping to copy the files to an attached USB drive plugged directly into the host. and then copy the VMs to a hyper-v server and do a convertion to .vdh

How do I get the USB drive to be recognized by the host so I can do a direct copy?

VMware to HyperV convertion

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.