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This document outlines a plan to migrate virtual machines from a Hyper-V hypervisor that has become unstable to a more stable ESXi hypervisor. The migration will involve cloning VMs to a backup server, switching to run off the backup server, installing ESXi on the primary server, and cloning VMs back to the primary server. A utility VM will provide file, monitoring, media and SMS services. The timeline allocates 3 days for cloning, 1 day for each switchover, and 3 days for ESXi installation and final cloning.

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This document outlines a plan to migrate virtual machines from a Hyper-V hypervisor that has become unstable to a more stable ESXi hypervisor. The migration will involve cloning VMs to a backup server, switching to run off the backup server, installing ESXi on the primary server, and cloning VMs back to the primary server. A utility VM will provide file, monitoring, media and SMS services. The timeline allocates 3 days for cloning, 1 day for each switchover, and 3 days for ESXi installation and final cloning.

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SERVER MIGRATION

Hyper-V to ESXI

Krishan Thisera
System engineer (VoIP)
MIGRATION FACET

System instability
Resource Utilization
Lack of features
To re-structure the current server infra
MIGRATION FACET

System instability
Current Hyper-V hypervisor is getting instable and it has required to restart the server
time to time
Lack of integrity, Most of users log in to Host server and then connect to their Guest
machine so it put all the VM Guests at risk.
Resource Utilization
Current HostOS is windows server with UI which carries bulk of unwanted services And
other unwanted services installed by users.
Lack of features
Hyper-V has lack of support when it comes to mounting external devices such as USB to
the guest machine.
Restructuring
All the existing server will be replaced and additionally there will be one VM as a utility
server(Carrying Media services, File services and etc. )
MIGRATION PLAN
MIGRATION PLAN TECHNICAL
PROCEDURE
Phase one : Server Cloning

Primary to Backup Cloning

Primary Server Backup


MIGRATION PLAN TECHNICAL
PROCEDURE
Phase two : Switch over to Backup

Primary Server Backup


MIGRATION PLAN TECHNICAL
PROCEDURE
Phase three : ESXI installation on Primary server
MIGRATION PLAN TECHNICAL
PROCEDURE
Phase three : Server Cloning

Server Cloning (Backup to Primary)

Primary Server Backup


MIGRATION PLAN TECHNICAL
PROCEDURE
Phase four : Switch over to Primary

Primary Server Backup


SOFTWARE

VMware Converter is a utility


that facilitates the creation of VMware ESXi is the industry-
VMware virtual machines leading, purpose-built bare-metal
from physical systems - hypervisor. ESXi installs directly onto
your physical server enabling it to be
partitioned into multiple logical
Microsoft introduced Hyper-V as a servers referred to as virtual
virtualization platform in 2008, and machines.
it continued to release new Hyper-V
versions with new Windows server or virtual machines associated
versions. So far, there are a total of with third-party vendors. The
four versions, including Windows utility also enables migration of
Server 2012 R2, Windows Server virtual machines between
2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 and VMware platforms from a
Windows Server 2008. centralized management
console.
SOFTWARE

ESXI Licensing :
VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again. The
license key can be created for free at VMwares website. It has no expiration date.
The binaries you will receive as "Free Hypervisor" are 100% identical to the paid
version.
http://www.virten.net/2016/11/free-esxi-6-5-how-to-download-and-
get-license-keys/

Limitations
No support
Free ESXi cannot be added to a vCenter Server
2 physical CPUs
Unlimited cores per CPU
Unlimited physical Memory
max. 8 vCPU per VM
STRUCTURE
TIME LINE

3d 1D 3D 3D _
UTILITY VM CONTENT

File Server
Monitoring Server
Media Server
SMS Gateway
Etc.
BACKUP SERVER

Backup server will contain all the VMs resides on the Primary server but during the
migration process, it will only run limited number of VMs parallelly which are
essential to the operation.
Requirement,
i5 or i3 pc
16GB of memory
2TB HDD
IP 10.0.0.30
SERVER MIGRATION
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