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TiernanO
Asked: 2012-10-30 04:42:25 +0800 CST

Migrating VMs from Hyper-V 2008 R2 to 2012

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I have a machine in house which i am planning on Migrating from Windows Server 2008 R2 with HyperV to 2012 with HyperV. I am trying to figure out the easiest way of doing the migration... Most of the VMs are living on a small iSCSI NAS/SAN, with both VHDs and metadata stored there. Based on This MSDN Blogs post I need to manually export each VM and then re-import them on the 2012 box. Is that the only option? Is there a quicker way? Also, if space is limited, when an export completes, does it delete the original VM? or should i manually do this?

windows-server-2008

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    Fastest way is likely to ugprade the 2008 box to 2012. Then they are in 2012. And you can move them around.

    Export does not delete the original VM.

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  2. There is a script from Ben Armstrong, the VirtualPC guy which shows you how to export a VM using Powershell. Not tried it yet, so dont know about the space issues yet...

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