Microsoft at MMS 2012 announced a new toolkit for mass conversion of VMware VM’s to Hyper-V. VMMT is wizard based conversion tool aimed at conversion from VMware to the current version of Hyper-V. Windows Server 2012 support is still under development.

Please note that this is a different tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerator called Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter.

If you are only converting a dozen or so VM’s it is not worth your while. However if you have 100+ Windows and Linux VM’s in your environment this tool is for you. The target customer has multiple hypervisors, wants to move to Hyper-V and has primarily a Windows workload.

VMMT as it is called uses a combination of existing products and custom scripts:

  • vCenter & vSphere
  • Veeam Backup and Reporter
  • Orchestrator 2012
  • PowerShell
  • Virtual Machine Manager 2012

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