Migration to Hyper-V

Today I have mainly been working on our migration from ESXi 5 to MS-Hyper-V.

Whilst I cannot fault ESXi, their recent pricing structure is outside of our budget, and MS-Hyper-V comes in quite nicely.

All the VMs from Origin have been transferred to Olympic - using a combination of VMware converter and vmdx2vhd.

I had slight trouble migrating our exchange 2003 server as the Hyper-V tools wouldn't complete their install., but persistence won the day. I had to convert a few times before it took.

All services were up and running by 3:15pm, not bad considering I walked through the door at 6:20am. I think I had lunch.

Tomorrow I will re-task Origin from ESXi 5 to Hyper-V, now that its been freed-up, and hopefully start migrating VMs from Horizon (VMServer) to it.