I have been doing some seminars and presentations on the subject of migration from VMware. My latest seminars was with my colleague Kristian Nese and we were in Stockholm, Oslo and Trondheim talking about the cloud os, the new features in Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center VMM 2012 R2 and also migration and the different tools. After the summer camp at Microsoft I did a blog post about my customisations of the MAT that was running with MVMC and my way to solve the IP addresses and after my blog post there have come an updated version of the MAT that do handle the NIC.

If you plan to do a migration and just happens to be one of the lucky guys that have a Netapp box with Data ONTAP 8.2 in Cluster Mode in your VMware environment you can use the MAT for shift that can be found on the gallery. It utilizes the NetApp Data ONTAP PowerShell toolkit and the features in the Netapp storage that converts the vmdk files to vhdx right in the storage and boy do that save migration time as you do not have to move loads of data for your large VM´s over the network and then convert them at the target. As the Netapp software is so intelligent it does not write over the old data and you can quite easily go back if you find any issues after the migration.

Building Clouds have a blog post and Migration Mark has done a funny movie that can be watched on Youtube that explains the procedure and how fast it is!

Hope to start a project really soon with a Netapp customer 🙂