Virtualisation - conversion from one VI to another

There maybe a need to be able to migrate from one Virtualisation Product to another (vSphere to Hyper-V or vice-versa)

I've found some resources that can help.

Hyper-V to vSphere

A guide on how to convert from Hyper-V to vSphere VMs, which also has a link to a video from TrainSignal, can be found here.

vSphere to Hyper-V

There is now a tool that will enable you to convert vSphere VMs to Hyper-V 2012 which can be downloaded from here.

Microsoft - Booting Hyper-V 2012 from a USB stick

Coming from a VMware Virtualisation background and being new to Hyper-V I wanted to look at how I would do common tasks - in VMware ESXi gets installed on a internal USB stick (well, that's the option we use and how the servers are configured) so how do I do that in Hyper-V?

In short - you can't if you want any support off Microsoft.

NOTE: They do have a guide which allows OEMs to do it for you which is supported.

That aside, feel free to follow the guide to install it in a lab environment which will be what I'll be doing!

I also found a short video showing you how to do this (which follows the Microsoft instructions).

Alternatively you just get the ISO image for ESXi and follow the installation instructions to install it on hard disk or USB...... just a thought.....

Microsoft - Hyper-V 2012

Investigating Hyper-V 2012 which has been getting some good reviews.

There are a number of Hyper-V Jump Start videos available which I've been using.

The first one in the series is called Core which you can find here

If you want to check costs Windows 2012 licensing information can be found here

A video of Virtualisation Products comparisons are available from Microsoft (hmmm....) which are taken from there TechEd 2012 conference VIR311 and one about Private Cloud comparisons VIR312