Microsoft fire another salvo – putting the conversion capability from vmware to hyperv in a plugin that runs inside the vsphere client !!! This will appeal to those admins looking at a test of the new HyperV3 capabilities when its released. (PS you can get it here)
The MVMC Plug-in for VMware vSphere Client Beta:
Extends the vSphere Client context menu to make it easier to convert the VMware-based virtual machine to a Hyper-V-based virtual machine.
Is built upon the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter release candidate.
This plug-in extends vSphere Client to facilitate conversions from a virtual machine context menu and without changing configurations on the source VMware host. For more details about which guest operating systems are supported, see the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter documentation:
which states
The MVMC Release Candidate:
- Converts and deploys virtual machines from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts running:
- Windows Server® 2012 Release Candidate.
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Release Candidate.
- Adds virtual network interface cards (NICs) to the converted virtual machine on Hyper-V.
- Configures dynamic memory on the converted virtual machine.
- Supports migration of virtual machines that are hosted on a vSphere cluster.
- Supports migration of virtual machines to a Hyper-V host that is part of a failover cluster
Some points to note – that the vm needs to be running and that there are some specific steps required if windows 2003 vms have multiple disks or controllers