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by mr_vaughn
Sat May 10, 2025 6:21 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware
Replies: 7
Views: 8359

Re: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware

So in some testing. ESXi VM with PVSCSI on source VM as only controller for only 1 VMDK for C:\ does migrate. Some others in same configuration do not. So strange. I can boot into OS repair mode. use disk part and assign a C: drive and execute chkdsk on C: and file systems is good. I did note that t...
by mr_vaughn
Sat May 10, 2025 6:21 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware
Replies: 7
Views: 8359

Re: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware

So in some testing. ESXi VM with PVSCSI on source VM as only controller for only 1 VMDK for C:\ does migrate. Some others in same configuration do not. So strange. I can boot into OS repair mode. use disk part and assign a C: drive and execute chkdsk on C: and file systems is good. I did note that t...
by mr_vaughn
Sat May 10, 2025 12:35 am
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware
Replies: 7
Views: 8359

Re: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware

Further on this.
If I do start another starwind conversion in another GUI window the network throughput goes up double.
So it seems the speed per conversion is 1Gb/s

I wonder if there limitations in process throughput?
by mr_vaughn
Fri May 09, 2025 9:12 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware
Replies: 7
Views: 8359

Best Practices before VM migration from ESXi/VMware

Hi All I am looking for a check list on what to do to the source VM before conversion to Hyper-V. We have many VM's and almost all of them are tune with using the following VM hardware configurations. Source ESXi VM's * OS - Windows 2016 & higher * Controller - Paravirtual SCSI * Disks - Mostly ...
by mr_vaughn
Fri May 09, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: VMWare to Hyper-V Conversion failing
Replies: 48
Views: 201245

Re: VMWare to Hyper-V Conversion failing

Is this fixed in the latest build?
I have many thick VMDK on ESXi needing to go to Hyper-V

I wish when selecting the Hyper-V you could select/specify the destination VHDX type.