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Sorry, I just mean clone. to take a copy of the machine, rather than migrating it not to copy the VMDK files.<br />
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Also, do I need to uninstall VMware tools from the source ESX VM before conversion?
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Sorry, I just mean clone. to take a copy of the machine, rather than migrating it not to copy the VMDK files.

Also, do I need to uninstall VMware tools from the source ESX VM before conversion?

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Virtual Machine converter will do this for you.
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Virtual Machine converter will do this for you.

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I know I closed this off but when I go to power on the new Hyper-V server I get the attached error <a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/10_w43/963304/ESXconvertissu.PNG" target="_blank" title="Power on Error (26 KB)"><img alt="Power on Error" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 417px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/10_w43/963304/ESXconvertissu.PNG" /></a>
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I know I closed this off but when I go to power on the new Hyper-V server I get the attached error Power on Errorhttps://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/10_w43/963304/ESXconvertissu.PNG

ESXconvertissu.PNG

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I running ESX 5.5-U2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 and I'm looking for the best way to clone the ESX machine for use in Hyper-V<br />
I don't want to migrate and convert, I just need a copy of it on the Hyper-V box.
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I running ESX 5.5-U2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 and I'm looking for the best way to clone the ESX machine for use in Hyper-V
I don't want to migrate and convert, I just need a copy of it on the Hyper-V box.

Converting an ESX virtual Machine to a Hyper-V virtual machine

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

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

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.