1. Microsoft virtual machine converter

2. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Version 2.0
Overview
Free to download tool
Standalone tool supporting Hyper-v 2012 R2 and VSphere 5.5 and above
Converts VMWare virtual Machines to hyper-v with additional functionality which includes support for later guest operating systems and target hosts
Migrate VMWare Virtual Machines to Azure space
Benefits
Quick to deploy
Small installer and UI driven tool
Support for PowerShell which helps to write customizations
Built in migration automation toolkit
Fully supported by Microsoft
Note 1 : VHDX format migration is only possible from VMWare to Hyper-V starting from Windows Server 2012 and above
Note 2 : VHD format is supported when migrating Virtual Machine from VMWare to Azure

3. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported Source and Destination Hosts
VMWare
vCenter 4.1
vCenter 5.1
vCenter 5.5
ESX/ESXi 4.1
ESXi 5.1
ESXi 5.5
Hyper-V / Microsoft Azure
Hyper –V 2008 R2 SP1 ( VHD )
Hyper—V 2012 ( VHD/ VHDX )
Hyper—V 2012 R (VHD / VHDX)
Microsoft Azure

4. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported Guest Operating Systems
Note: Microsoft Azure do not support X86 version guests
Note2: Microsoft Azure do not support Windows clients ( All versions )
VMWare Hardware Versions 4 7 8 9 10
Supported Guest OS
Windows Server 2008 (X86/X64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (X64)
Windows Server 2012 (X64)
Windows Server 2012 R2 ( X64)
Windows Vista Enterprise ( X86/X64)
Windows 7 Pro/Ent/Ultimate ( X86/X64)
Windows 8 Pro/Ent ( X86/X64)
RHEL 5/6 (X86/X64)
Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 (X86/x64)
SLES 11 (X86/X64)
CentOS 5/6 ( X86/x64)
Debian GNU/Linux 7 (X86/X64)
Oracle Linux 5/6 ( X86/X64)

5. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported VMWare Virtual Disk Configurations
Note: Virtual Machine disk should be of VMDK format.
VMWare Virtual Machines
Supported Guest OS versions
Supported VMWare Virtual Disk Types
MonolithicFlat
MonolithicSparse
TwoGbMaxExtentflat
TwoGbMaxExtentSparse
StreamOptimized
Vmfs
VmfsSparse
Delta disk conversion

6. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Destination / Hyper-V Side Requirements
Note: Migration will have two identically sized files , hence double the size of capacity per VM
VMWare Virtual Machines
User account should have appropriate privileges to conduct migration
Hyper-V Requirements
Account Should have appropriate privileges to conduct migration
Account should have write access to UNC path ( SMB share ) on Hyper-v Host
Double the size of source VMDK capacity per VM migration
For Windows Guests
Disable Firewall, enable RDP and ensure VMWare tools are installed
Remote access through WMI is enabled on source VMWare VM
Account should be part of AD and has local administrator privileges

7. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Azure Requirements
Note: Migration will have two identically sized files , hence double the size of capacity per VM
VMWare Virtual Machines
MVMC 2.0 performs virtual machine conversion to VHDs and upload the disks to Microsoft Azure blob storage
Azure Requirements
MVMC 2.0 requires management certificate used to authenticate user subscription ID on Microsoft Azure
Requires storage account to upload and store the converted VHDs in Microsoft Azure
To convert and upload to Microsoft Azure, PowerShell 3.0 Runtime component is required on the machine on which MVMC 2.0 is running ( especially when running on legacy OS )

8. Converting a VM : High level Process
MVMC will connect to vCenter/ESXi & select the guest to be converted
MVMC will checkpoint the VM / snapshot the VM and uninstall VMWare tools
VMDK to VHD / VHDX copy and conversion will take place
Turn on the VM at the end of the process

9. Converting a VM : High level Process
Important Points to be considered
Bulk conversions are not possible, only one VM can be converted at a time
VMWare tools are not required on Hyper-v end, hence uninstall them before converting, but snapshot will still have VMWare tools in it
During copy and conversion, migration time should include copy, conversion and network time should be factored into overall migration effort
Supports Stateless VM migration considering the fact the downtime is very minimal ( just for reboot )

10. Migration automation toolkit for mvmc 2.0
PowerShell scripts that wrapper MVMC 2.0 with automation to perform multiple conversions simultaneously
Free download, edit and customize
Uses free SQL Express to store information about the conversion process
Supports multiple simultaneous conversions per MVMC 2.0 machine
Scales out across multiple machines running MVMC 2.0 and scripts all coordinated from central node. More helper nodes = more simultaneous conversions. This means MVMC 2.0 can be installed on multiple systems and each of the MVMC nodes ( systems ) can run 1-3 migrations at a time