Migrating from ESXi to Hyper-V

[lucki]

Currently we are running ESXi 5.5 on a single host, in the effort to have HA and DR a new host was purchase.

The plan is to have a 2 node cluster running Hyper-V. However we need to migrate the old VMs from ESXi before reformating the old host.

Are the following step feasible to migrate from ESXi to Hyper-V?
The new host will have the OS installed on a 32GB SD card running Win 2012 R2 (core Edition), local storage will be equally partitioned at 1TB in Raid 5.
Migrate existing VMs from ESXi to Hyper-V.
The old host will be have the OS installed on a 32GB SD card running Win 2012 R2 (core Edition), local storage will be equally partitioned at 1TB in Raid 5.
Install SolarWind Virtual San on both host, create a SAN from both hosts with the secondary partition.
Join both hosts into a cluster, move existing VMs into the cluster.
Create a new SAN from both hosts with the primary partition.

[anton (staff)]

RAID5 is a bad thing for image files but is OK for LSFS (LSFS can mitigate read-modify-write write penalty of parity RAID while image file currently cannot).

We're StarWind (SAN Provider), SolarWinds are another company (SAN Mgmt).

You can use something like VEEAM backup to take a copy of your VMs on other destination. Then you mount backup datastore with Windows, convert VMs from ESXi -> Hyper-V using our converter tool (unlike others we can patch hardware to match new emulated hardware set) and import them in Hyper-V. After that you're GOOD

[lucki]

sorry for the typo

what would you recommend in term of raid that is best suited for image files?

also would the steps mentioned above be feasible or should i do a different back up and setup strategy?

[Oles (staff)]

Hello Lucki!

We recommend using RAID 10.

Yes, all steps mentioned above are feasible. But again, i would recommend using RAID 10, if it is possible.

Let me know if you have any questions left, thank you.