I am in need to to talk with an instructor about the best way to move Hyper-v VM's from one physical machine to another...Please assist!!!
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What is the best way to move Hypr-V VM's to a new physical machine?
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There are articles out there to say this is possible. e.g., https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/virtual-to-physical-conversions-v2p/
Having said that, personally, regardless of the virtualization technology ( hyper-v or vmware or even virtualbox) I have never been able to do this successfully even when following the steps as carefully as I can. Even the article recommends to not do this.
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Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
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What about using the Hyper-V Live Migration process?
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Perhaps I did not word my question properly. What I am attempting to do is migrate my Hyper-V VM's from one server to another.
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From one Hyper-V server to another Hyper-V server?
If things are connected on the backend correctly as a cluster with shared storage between them.and the 2 servers can see each other. It should be as simple as right clicking on the server and telling it which server to migrate to. Then the contents of that VM state will be moved over to the 2 hyper-v machine, then resumed on it after that.
Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
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Hi @Shannon-Wright - If you can afford downtime, we like to shutdown VMs and export them. You can then re-import into another Hyper-V server. We run mirror configurations on our Hyper-V servers so the import process is quick. You might however find that the NIC's on the VM need re-configuring once you bring up the VM on the other server. Having the VirtualSwitches with the same name will also help between servers.
