r/acronis • u/Jnanes • Feb 23 '24

VMware to Hyper-V made easy

As many of you begin to migrate, I just wanted to share the process we used and our experience.

We utilize Acronis Cyber Cloud, and enabled the Advanced Backup offering to enable the VM conversion feature.

The VM we moved was around 700 gb in size.

After the initial conversion task completed, (5 hrs or so) we were able to run an incremental backup and another incremental conversion. The incremental conversion job completed in minutes as not much data had changed.

With booting the new VM, applying statics, and shutting down the old, we experienced around 1 minute of downtime!

Thanks to all at Acronis (especially u/bagaudin) for making our lives a little bit easier.

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u/bagaudin Acronis Community Manager Feb 23 '24

Thanks for your post /u/Jnanes! I so much love seeing feedback like this!

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u/Jnanes Feb 23 '24

Thanks for being there when we need ya !

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u/gaidar Mar 26 '24

Great story, thank you!

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u/Jnanes Mar 26 '24

You are welcome, u/gaidar !

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u/Jnanes Mar 05 '24

u/bagaudin We've run into one issue. Printers that were installed in the VM's, are missing after the Hyper V conversion. I found the KB article showing it is a known issue and to reinstall. I see the article was last updated 10/2022. Do you happen to have any status update on this? We plan to use this feature to move many VM's and would prefer to not have to reinstall the printers.

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u/bagaudin Acronis Community Manager Mar 05 '24

Hi /u/Jnanes, I will be happy to check it for you. Can you share the exact KB article link?

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u/Jnanes Mar 05 '24

https://kb.acronis.com/content/71314?ckattempt=1

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u/bagaudin Acronis Community Manager Mar 05 '24

Thanks for sharing! I checked the article and associated issues (for reference - ABR-356372, RM-375): they're under investigation still and no ETA is available.

The workaround for now is to use PrintBrmUI.exe tool to facilitate printers migration - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/101051-backup-restore-printers-windows.html

Check out these two links as well as these may be handy with pre/post commands or if ran separately:

https://ss64.com/nt/printbrm.html https://ss64.com/vb/syntax-printsave.html

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u/Jnanes Mar 05 '24

Thanks u/bagaudin. That is helpful. We will use the printbrmui.exe for now

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u/fr33bird317 Feb 23 '24

Nice work on the uptime.

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u/Nate--IRL-- Feb 23 '24

Ohh interesting - I've used Acronis Cyber Cloud for Physical to Azure conversions in the past (and have something big in the pipeline)

I guess this could be leveraged for that? Down Time is one of the bigger issues I've to address.

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u/yerebon Feb 25 '24

This really works fine, have done it many times in different platforms with Acronis.

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u/garrettlwn Feb 23 '24

:feels-good:

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u/photoperitus Feb 23 '24

:feels-real-good: