How to Convert a VMWare VMDK to Hyper-V VHDX

in technology •  6 years ago 

A few days ago, I used Vmware P2V tool to convert my physical server to a virtual server. After doing that, I wiped the machine. I then decided to use Hyper-V instead. I had to find a way to convert the hard drive to a Hyper-V .VHDX disk instead of a VMWare disk without having an actual running VMWare server.

I stumbled upon Microsoft's Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 which does the conversion. It installs a GUI tool that takes the VMWare ESXi server and converts the running machines to Hyper-V. That did not help me since I didn't actually have an esxi host. I found that it also installs a PowerShell module that you can use to convert just the virtual hard drive to a VHDX.

First, install the tools: Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0

Second, open PowerShell and run the below two commands. First, import the module:

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1'
Second, convert the drive (of course change the paths to your need):
ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath d:\scratch\vmx\VM-disk1.vmdk -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx -destination c:\vm-disk1
And after some time of processing, you will have a VHDX!

 


Originally posted at https://moreabout.tech/how-to-convert-a-vmware-vmdk-to-hyper-v-vhdx/

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