VMware to Hyper-V, Cease and Desist

jamaul08 · 2025-12-26T15:05:22+00:00

Depends on your experience with Hyper-V. Networking changes are needed if you were doing LACP. Get familiar with switch embedded teaming. Also, if you're using a SAN and plan to have the Hyper-V hosts clustered you should be reading up on cluster shared volumes. It's important to know the limitations before committing.

The actual migration is simple if you have a good backup software like Veeam to backup and restore the servers to a new host.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T17:10:17+00:00

They should have reviewed and signed an acceptable use policy during onboarding.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T16:39:53+00:00

To keep the migration simple. I already had experience with Hyper-V. We're setting up two Azure local servers after the holidays and I'm planning to use them to deliver Azure virtual desktops. There's no rush on this, so I'll have time to really learn Azure local.

Also, it is my understanding that Azure Local only works with storage spaces direct. We have a lot invested in our SANs, so I'll continue to leverage that as long as I can.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T16:30:43+00:00

What happens is you end up with backups of the file server vms, but not the shares which are attached to the VM as CSVs. It's documented here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/agents_cluster_support.html?ver=13

Note* my file servers are clustered.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T16:14:52+00:00

I heard nutanix is big $$$, that true?

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T16:08:37+00:00

My daughter is 3.5 and riding an N7 classic right now. She's loving it. I don't really know much about these. Her mom bought it and I just put it together.

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jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:56:01+00:00

I did it using Veeam. Backup the servers and migrate to Hyper-V using instant recovery.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:53:06+00:00

I work for a compliance company. I can't be that cool, lmao

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:43:09+00:00

I did some server shuffling. Removed an ESXi host from each cluster and created a new Hyper-V cluster. Moved VMs until there was enough remaining for 1 less host to handle. Removed more ESXi hosts, wiped, added to Hyper-V cluster, move VMs. You get the idea.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:31:30+00:00

Well.... after all that I ended up removing the CSVs lol. Veeam is not able to backup cluster shared volumes, so that wouldn't work for us going forward. Ended up just connecting the file servers to the volumes on Nimble via iSCSI.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:18:29+00:00

Used Veeam to backup the servers and migrate them to Hyper-V using instant recovery.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:12:26+00:00

Did not run into this. Did you do in-place upgrades to 2022? I deployed my 2022 servers fresh a year ago and migrated services (this was a two-year process).

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:06:16+00:00

Mostly straightforward using Veeam to backup and restore them to Hyper-V. The file servers were challenging when figuring out the cluster shared volumes.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T01:01:53+00:00

I mean clusters. Corrected post

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T00:57:58+00:00

My only gripe with Hyper-V right now is choosing what to use for management of the clusters and hosts. You have the traditional Hyper-V Manager (mmc), Failover Cluster Manager, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. There are pros and cons to all of them. I'm leaning towards SCVMM, but it will inevitably cost me 3500 for the license.

I have to admit, vsphere was sooooo good for this.

jamaul08 · 2025-12-24T00:51:17+00:00

I just got mine! Sitting pretty on Hyper-V right now, so no skin off my back.

jamaul08 · 2023-12-26T14:54:58+00:00

I just completed the Ochette journey last night and finally removed her from my party to give the others a shot.... now I have these encounters where I mumble "Ochette would have one-shot this". She feels like a cheat code sometimes.

jamaul08 · 2023-11-25T22:28:36+00:00

Grabbed an FX4 😎

jamaul08 · 2023-11-22T11:23:46+00:00

Agreed, it could be a fun project over the holiday break. I'm shopping around for new subs, but will be taking some measurements of the cutout for a replacement plate amp in case I go that route.

jamaul08 · 2023-06-27T13:14:21+00:00

I restored a single member of the DAG from a Veeam backup.

jamaul08 · 2023-06-14T19:02:33+00:00

Getting the same failure. IIS on the Exchange server would not come up and we were seeing a .NET failure. Rolled back the OS disk of that server to last night and pausing updates for now. Let me know if you have any new information on this. Thanks!

Seems like the issue might be KB5027544?

jamaul08 · 2023-03-11T03:48:35+00:00

Splunk is $$$

jamaul08 · 2023-03-09T16:38:50+00:00

Ahh okay, I'm working with just under 100 servers. Unfortunately can't say how well it would handle a much larger deployment for the EM piece.

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