Switching to Hyper–V:Migrating from VMware ‘the other guys’Mark GossonSenior Program Mgr.Microsoft

Matt McSpiritTechnical Product

Mgr.Microsoft

WS-B325

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Switchers“With System Center 2012, we have much more granular insight into and control over the services we’re delivering to the business. This is critical in helping Pella make great windows and doors.” - Jim Thomas, Director of IT Operations, Pella

Pizza Chain to Switch 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V to Increase Reliability, Performance

Domino’s is switching its in-store virtualization software to Hyper-V and uses System Center data center solutions to manage those servers

To stay competitive, Apartments.com needs to introduce new services frequently and deliver outstanding web performance. It found that its VMware-based infrastructure was too inflexible to meet developer needs and too expensive to deploy in production

“After virtualizing our Taiwan data center using Windows Server 2012, we expect to save $600,000 a year. The potential savings across all our

global data centers could be up to five times higher.” - Harry Richards, Group Enterprise Architect, Acer

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Microsoft Options | VMMV2V Inbox – Walk through a simple wizard to convert VMs from VMware to Hyper-V. VMs should have VMware Tools removed, and can be on a host (off), or in VMM library.

+ Orchestrator

Easy Steps – Select VM settings, Select Host, Select Path, Select NetworksFinish – View Script button for PowerShellOrchestrator – Combine with Orchestrator to automate the conversion process from VMware to Hyper-V

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Demo

What is MVMC?Supported & Free – Quick and easy to download, use and start conversions of VMware VMs

Convert to 2012 – Converts and deploys virtual machines or virtual disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts including Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012Scriptable – fully scriptable command-line interfaces for performing virtual machine and disk conversions that integrates well with data center automation workflows and Windows PowerShell scriptsOS Support – Supports Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 & Windows Vista & Windows 7

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Demo – Kicking off a migration

PowerCLI

MAT - Architecture

User Ordered List

1 - Collect

2 - Order

3 - Convert

The “other guys”MVMC.exe

Ctrl

SQL Express

Hyper-V

Helper-1 Helper-2 Helper-X

Start Remotes

Convert

Task Schedule on Remotes

Check Semaphore

Sempahore > QueueLength

Start

Get Unassigned Get Next VM=0End Start-Process

Log Monitor

MATWorkflow

Demo – MAT deep dive

MVMC Automation Toolkit

• Key Features:• Free to use• Easy to use• Driven by PowerShell • SQL Express Database (free version)• Supports Multiple Concurrent Conversions per Server• Scales Horizontally to Multiple Servers • Extensible and Customizable• Provides Simple Reporting and Management• Download it here

Key Focus Areas

Who’s Migrating & Why?

Microsoft’s Migration Options

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation ToolkitSummary

Summary

• Customers are migrating for a number of reasons:• Cost, Comprehensive Management, Automation, Integration

• Multiple options available for Migration• Virtual Machine Manager (V2V/P2V) with Orchestrator

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter• Free solution to migrate individual VMs from VMware to Hyper-V with no

System Center

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit• Accelerates and Scales the free MVMC through simple, extensible automation• Read about it on http://aka.ms/buildingclouds

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