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Migration from ESXi 8 to Hyper-V

Anonymous
2025-02-09T09:47:47+00:00

Hi All,

I have a 2node ESXi cluster with a Dell storage over iSCSI.Due to Broadcom I'd like to move to Hyper-V. I only purchased the servers and the SAN in 2022 so I don't want to replace this but I wondering how I can do the migration. I was thinking that I could use an existing NAS that I have and add that as an NFS datastore and use that to store the new VHDXs, so that I can the rebuild the new Hyper-V cluster, and then move the VMs back in. We also have Veeam currently but I don't think I can use this since we don't have new hardware to restore the VMs to. Please could you let me know what you think may be the best approach here ?

Thanks,

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-10T07:48:37+00:00

    Hi t tjaansen1227,

    I don't think Hyper-V support NFS so you may need to create a SMBv3 share on your NAS. Then you can create new Hyper-V VMs and use the file share as the virtual disk path.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-10T08:48:01+00:00

    Thank Ian.

    I need a datastore to hold the converted VMs from ESXi to Hyper-V but ESXi doesn't support SMB, which is why I was going to use NFS. I was then going to rebuild my SAN and hosts to Hyper-V.

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