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I am in the process of migrating my machines from Hyper-V to ESXi and I was just wondering what is the best way to do so?

I tried just copying the hyper-v disk file, creating a new vmware workstation machine that uses that VHD and it just worked (I guess they support VHD files). Can ESXi do the same? Can I just install ESXi, create a new machine that uses the VHD file and it should boot?

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I'd take a look at VMware Converter. It can import a Hyper-V machine the same way it imports physical servers. I'm not sure there's a way to import directly from the vhd.

I've used Converter quite a bit, and it's pretty simple/quick process.

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so, it connects to the hyper-v server and dumps a vmware compatible image? – Acanthus Sep 11 '10 at 23:15
Yes, it will actually connect directly to the ESXi server and when completed, you'll have a ready-to-boot VM within ESXi. – ErikA Sep 12 '10 at 0:34
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@acanthus - Not exactly. It'll connect to your guest virtual machines. It doesn't know anything about Hyper-V specifically. It'll install a service on the Hyper-V Guest, then copy its data out to your vSphere environment. – Chris Thorpe Sep 12 '10 at 1:07
@Chris - agreed, thanks for clarifying. – ErikA Sep 12 '10 at 1:22
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