MVMC 3.0 released with P2V support
The day has come with a new version of the free conversion tool from Microsoft, MVMC 3.0 have been released.
There where some bashing on the net when the VMM 2012 R2 was released and the P2V functionality was removed from that version and some crazy ideas using a secondary VMM 2012 SP1 to do the P2V migrations and then importing into the VMM 2012 R2 was suggested, well that time is now no more now 🙂
The installation is quite straightforward with the msi and just a simple wizard.
Once installed You can start exploring the new options including the new P2V.
When doing a P2V the MVMC will install an agent on the source and when doing a P2V the source have to be online during the migration.
And then you go through the wizard and start the conversion
Once it is finished, you find the VM in your Hyper-V host and can start it, but beware that the wizard does not ask if you want to shut down your source after migration so that is something you have to take care of before starting that P2V´d VM
But wait you say, I have 100 vm´s and will die if I use the wizard for all of them! Then you can use the PowerShell module and automate the conversion:
The operating systems that is supported migrating with the MVMC are (although only Windows with the P2V):
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x64
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter x64
- Windows Server 2012 Standard x64
- Windows Server 2012 Datacenter x64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard x64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter x64
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (x86/x64)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x86/x64)
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (x86/x64)
- Windows 8 Enterprise (x86/x64)
- Windows 8 Pro (x86/x64)
- Windows 7 Enterprise (x86/x64)
- Windows 7 Professional (x86/x64)
- Windows 7 Ultimate (x86/x64)
- Windows Vista Enterprise x86/x64
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6 (x86/x64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86/x64)
- Ubuntu 12.04 (x86/x64)
- Ubuntu 10.04 (x86/x64)
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86/x64)
- CentOS 6 (x86/x64)
- CentOS 5 (x86/x64)
- Debian GNU/Linux 7 (x86/x64)
- Oracle Linux 6 (x86/x64)
- Oracle Linux 5 (x86/x64)
Good luck in your migrations!!