I know this is very late but.... I had a few VMs on ESXi 4 and I was able to convert them by shutting down the VM, using my vSphere client to access the datastore and downloading the VM files to my Hyper-V host. Then I was able to use the V2V tool to convert from the local VMDK file to a VHDX. It's ...

I am going to be doing a P2V of a file server. I expect it will take several hours. Do I need to disable the shares before starting the conversion so no one is accessing or changing data during the conversion, or can I do it "live" and the tool with pickup the changes as they are made? I a...