1. TechEd 2013
9/16/2018 5:44 PM
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2. Migrating from VMware: Tools and Tips
9/16/2018 5:44 PM
MDC-B347
Migrating from VMware: Tools and Tips
Matt McSpirit
Mark Gosson
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3. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

4. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

5. Switchers
“With System Center 2012, we have much more granular insight into and control over the services we’re delivering to the business. This is critical in helping Pella make great windows and doors.” - Jim Thomas, Director of IT Operations, Pella
Pizza Chain to Switch 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V to Increase Reliability, Performance
Domino’s is switching its in-store virtualization software to Hyper-V and uses System Center data center solutions to manage those servers
To stay competitive, Apartments.com needs to introduce new services frequently and deliver outstanding web performance. It found that its VMware-based infrastructure was too inflexible to meet developer needs and too expensive to deploy in production
“After virtualizing our Taiwan data center using Windows Server 2012, we expect to save $600,000 a year. The potential savings across all our global data centers could be up to five times higher.” - Harry Richards, Group Enterprise Architect, Acer

6. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

7. Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit
Free download
Agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool
Securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations
Version 8.0 currently available.
Version 8.5 Beta also available for testing

8. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

9. Microsoft Options | VMM
+ Orchestrator
V2V Inbox – Walk through a simple wizard to convert VMs from VMware to Hyper-V. VMs should have VMware Tools removed, and can be on a host (off), or in VMM library.
Easy Steps – Select VM settings, Select Host, Select Path, Select Networks
Finish – View Script button for PowerShell
Orchestrator – Combine with Orchestrator to automate the conversion process from VMware to Hyper-V

10. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

11. Windows Server Management Marketing
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What is MVMC?
Supported & Free – Quick and easy to download, use and start conversions of VMware VMs
Convert to 2012 – Converts and deploys virtual machines or virtual disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts including Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012
Scriptable – fully scriptable command-line interfaces for performing virtual machine and disk conversions that integrates well with data center automation workflows and Windows PowerShell scripts
OS Support – Supports Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 & Windows Vista & Windows 7
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12. MVMC Capabilities Converts VMware VMs to Hyper-V VMs
Supports converting to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Wizard Driven UI for Conversion
Includes CLI for VM & Virtual Disk Conversion
Supports Offline Conversion of VMDK to VHD
Removes VMware Tools for a Clean Migration
Installs Hyper-V Integration Services

13. MVMC Machine Conversion
Conversion Machine
VMware® vCenter™
vSphere VM
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter VM VM VM VM VM
Select VMware Source
Select VM to Convert
Microsoft Windows
Hyper-V
Select Hyper-V Destination VM
Start Conversion VM
Conversion Complete VM VM

14. Supported Configuration
VMware (source)
Hypervisors
vSphere 4.1, 5.0
ESX, ESXi
Disk Types
IDE & SCSI
VMFS Flat & Sparse
Stream Optimized
VMDK Flat & Sparse
VMDK Delta
Single/Multi-Extent
Microsoft (destination)
Hypervisors
Windows Server 2012
Hyper-v Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Disk Types
IDE (boot) & SCSI
VHD Fixed
VHD Dynamic
Guest Operating Systems
Windows 2003 SP2 x64, x86
Windows 7 X64, x86
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Windows Server 2008 R1 x86, x64
Windows Vista x86, x64
Converter Machines
Windows Server 2012
Windows 7 X64, x86
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64

15. MVMC in Action
Mark Gosson

16. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

17. Why do we need MAT? Simple: To Scale MVMC Conversions
MVMC Standalone -> One VM at a time…
MAT: Collection of PowerShell scripts that will automate conversions using the MVMC.exe

18. MAT Architecture Helper Machines mvmc.exe Hyper-V 3. Convert 4. Scale
Physical/Virtual OS with mvmc.exe
mvmc.exe
Hyper-V
3. Convert
4. Scale
PowerCLI
1. Collect
vSphere
Physical/Virtual OS with SQL Express
User Ordered List
2. Order
Control Machine

19. MAT Demo & Walkthrough
Mark Gosson

20. MVMC Automation Toolkit
Key Features:
Free to use
Easy to use
Driven by PowerShell
SQL Express Database (free version)
Supports Multiple Concurrent Conversions per Server
Scales Horizontally to Multiple Servers
Extensible and Customizable
Provides Simple Reporting and Management
Download it here

21. Key Focus Areas Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments
Migration with System Center 2012 SP1
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Summary

22. Summary – Acronym Overload
MAP = Microsoft Assessment & Planning (Toolkit)
MVMC = Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
MAT = MVMC* Automation Toolkit
VMM = Virtual Machine Manager
V2V = Virtual to Virtual
P2V = Physical to Virtual
(*Rare Nested Acronym)

23. Summary Customers are migrating for a number of reasons:
Cost
Comprehensive Management,
Automation
Integration
Multiple options available for Migration
Virtual Machine Manager (V2V/P2V) or with Orchestrator
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Free solution to migrate individual VMs from VMware to Hyper-V with no System Center
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit
Accelerates and Scales the free MVMC through simple, extensible automation
Read about it on:

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