Otherwise, your migrated VM may be deleted.

Note: If you migrate VMs to the same datastore cluster that is used as the destination for redirecting virtual disk updates (the Datastore step of the Instant Recovery wizard), you must enable the Force Veeam transport usage check box at the Transfer step of the Quick Migration wizard. The next step is to perform a ‘Quick Migration’, this will migrate the VMDK from the NFS datastore across to the production datastore. Veeam will show the Instantly Recovered VMs with a status ‘Mounted’. Notice the V2V Conversion action that is automatically performed by Veeam. Click ‘Finish’ to start the Instant Recovery to VMware. Proceed to summary, I recommend to leave the VM powered off until the VMDKs have been migrated to the production datatores. Skip the ‘Secure Restore’ option unless there is concern of malware.

If you plan on powering on the VM before migrating it’s VMDK (storage vmotion) I recommend enabling ‘Redirect write cache’ to improve disk performance.

Select the target network appropriate for your environment. To start the migration process, browse to the backups, right-click the VM to be migrated and click ‘Instant VM Recovery’ then ‘VMware…’Īt the next screen, ensure the selected restore point matches the time for when the VM was shut down and the last backup ran. Once the backup has completed, the source VM should not be powered on again. During the outage window, the source Hyper-V VMs being migrated are powered down and the Veeam backup job is run again to ensure all changes to the VM disks have been backed up. To get started, a backup was taken of the source Hyper-V VMs prior to the scheduled outage window. Veeam even handles the P2V/V2V conversion automatically with it’s own built-in logic. In other words, physical servers, workstations, virtual machines or cloud instance Veeam backups can now be restored to VMware. With this latest Instant VM Recovery, Veeam can instantly recover any Veeam backup created by any Veeam product to a VMware vSphere VM. I recently had the opportunity to migrate a small regional office from Hyper-V to VMware by leveraging Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere VMs available in Veeam Backup & Replication v10.

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