A Real-Life Hyper-V Migration Story

Jonathan Cusson from AlphaMosaik, a company that specializes in Microsoft products, shared his experience doing a Hyper-V migration with the Canadian IT Professionals blog at TechNet.

Here's the situation: Jonathan migrated the company's production and development environment from Windows 2003 with Virtual Server to Windows 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V. And he did it without the help of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or any other migration or management tools (which would have made life easier).

Here are Jonathan's three easy steps for moving the virtual machines from Virtual Server to Hyper-V:

1. Uninstall the Virtual Server Addition Tools before moving to the Hyper-V host
2. Move the VHD to the new host server
3. Create the VM in Hyper-V using the VHD you just moved