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Thank you both! I was able to use the V2V software from starwind to create the VHD file.
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Thank you both! I was able to use the V2V software from starwind to create the VHD file.

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Hello, I'm currently in the process of attempting to migrate a VMware VM into a Hyper-V environment. The issue I have is the two infrastructures are not connected. The Hyper-V environment is off site. I've found a few conversion utilities, but I wasn't sure if they would work. Ideally, I'd like to convert the VM and be able to put it onto an external drive, take it to the Hyper-V location and import it into their infrastructure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello, I'm currently in the process of attempting to migrate a VMware VM into a Hyper-V environment. The issue I have is the two infrastructures are not connected. The Hyper-V environment is off site. I've found a few conversion utilities, but I wasn't sure if they would work. Ideally, I'd like to convert the VM and be able to put it onto an external drive, take it to the Hyper-V location and import it into their infrastructure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

VMware to Hyper-V conversion

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

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.