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How To Convert VMWare Servers To Hyper-V

Moving VMWare Virtual Servers into the Windows Hyper-V Environment.  By: Allan Snodgrass The introduction of Windows Server 2008 R2 was the first real Windows OS version where server virtualization was an honest reality.  Sure it could be done in previous versions of Windows Server, but not until 2008 R2 did it really hit mainstream usability.  Well, with the introduction of Windows Server 2012, server virtualization takes another leap forward and if you are not looking at virtualization for your ERP software and buisness yet, you will be in the coming months.  Or, if your business was an early adopter of virtualization and went with VMWare to create and manage virtuals, the licensing and feature sets will get you thinking about a move into Hyper-V instead. With that in mind, Microsoft has released a tool that makes it pretty straight forward to convert VMWare Virtual Servers into Hyper-V Virtual Servers .  The Microsoft tool converts the virtual disks attached to the source