VMware to Hyper-V Migration with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (Step-by-Step)

In this video, you’ll learn how to migrate a VMware virtual machine to Microsoft Hyper-V using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC).
The walkthrough covers two real-world migration scenarios:

Migrating a VMware VM from an ESXi host using the MVMC GUI

Converting VMware virtual disks to Hyper-V format using PowerShell cmdlets

The example VM runs Windows Server 2019, and the video explains key prerequisites such as uninstalling VMware Tools, checking the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI), and choosing the correct Hyper-V VM generation.

Check all the steps and commands in this blog post:
How to Convert VMware VMs to Hyper-V VMs: A Step-by-Step Guide
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-convert-vmware-vm-to-hyper-v

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00:00 Introduction

00:27 Prepare the VMware VM

01:53 Install Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

02:38 Convert VMware VM to Hyper-V with GUI

05:49 Fix VMDK descriptor error

09:03 Manually create Hyper-V VM with converted disk

12:04 Convert VMDK to VHD with PowerShell

21:12 Convert ESXi disks after local download