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Need to create a Hyper V Server from VMware server files to recreate server

I have a windows 2008 standard server that is running VMware Server with a virtual machine on it (My WSUS Server). I just promoted the server to a Domain Controller which caused some issues for me. When I ran dcpromo.exe, it said that I needed to uninstall “Active Directory Certificate Services” before running dcpromo. I uninstalled “Active Directory Certificate Services” and ran dcpromo.exe to promote the server to a DC. Now I cannot connect to the virtual machine. I’m trying to figure out how to recover the VM. I have the file for the VM disk. Is there a way to get the VMware Server up and running again? If not, is there a way import the files into Hyper V?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Was this an old version of VMware Server 2.0 ?

If you have the VMDK, you could try to convert the VMDK to a VHD for Hyper-V.

see here

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter

revellej

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Andrew, Thanks for the suggestion.
I installed VMware Server 2.0 on another server and I was able to restore the VM by copying the files over to the new server. I still want to convert it to Hyper-V and I think the link you provided should work. I'll be out next week but I want to do this soon. I'll keep you updated on this.

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revellej

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Hi Andrew, both of these links are dead "Page cannot be found". Do you have another way for me to access them?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Sorry about that, corrected. (typo)

revellej