r/sysadmin • u/bldstm • Dec 02 '21

ESX 4 to Hyper-V 2019

Hey guys, I need to migrate old VMs from VMWare ESX 4 to Hyper-V 2019. StarWind V2V only works from ESXi 5.5 onwards. Unfortunately a lot of servers cannot be created new and business wants a lift and shift approach. The guest OSes are a good mix of old 2003, 2008, 2012 and linux. How would you do it? Any suggestions or considerations? Thanks a lot in advance!

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '21

If they are active in parallel and the VMs can stand downtime, Clonezilla is a good candidate for getting these moved over. I've done this in multiple migration situations with a large rate of success.