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Nichelle Gruger
Back at TechEd 2012, Microsoft released a free tool into beta testing aimed at helping vSphere admins convert Windows virtual machines to Hyper-V (I wrote about it here). It's nifty, but check out this better alternative: 5nine V2V Easy Converter.
5nine has been quietly creating free and paid tools specifically for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. At TechEd, its v-Firewall and Anti-Malware got mentioned in numerous sessions as the only firewall solution available at the time for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V that uses the new Hyper-V extensible switch.
I tried out 5nine V2V Easy Converter by installing it on my local workstation and then converting a vSphere Windows VM to a Hyper-V VM. It worked well and did allow me to modify the guest VM configuration during the conversion. Fig. 1 shows how successful my VM conversion went.
Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter performs fast and non-intrusive host to host conversion and fixup of selected VMware Virtual Machines to Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machines with the highest conversion success ratio.
Current version of Free 5nine V2V Converter supports conversion of Windows Server 2012 R2/2012/2008, Windows 8.x/7, Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64), and most of Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Ubuntu and CentOS configurations. It also supports conversion to Gen1 and Gen2 Hyper-V Virtual Machines.
Features and Benefits:
- Free standalone tool
- Enables conversion without VMware service interruption
- Fast, effective and easy to use
- Supports migration of the guests with different configurations
- Allows to modify the target guest configuration parameters
- Supports conversion of both WindowsOS, Ubuntu and CentOS VMs in most configurations
Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter is a free software published in the Other list of programs, part of System Utilities.
This program is available in English. It was last updated on 15 November, 2023. Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows.
The company that develops Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter is 5nine Software, Inc.. The latest version released by its developer is 4.0. This version was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 5.0.
The download we have available for Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter has a file size of 2.10 MB. Just click the green Download button above to start the downloading process. The program is listed on our website since 2014-08-12 and was downloaded 249 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter on your Windows device:
- Click on the Download button on our website. This will start the download from the website of the developer.
- Once the Free 5nine V2V Easy Converter is downloaded click on it to start the setup process (assuming you are on a desktop computer).
- When the installation is finished you should be able to see and run the program.
Use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 ( -us/download/details.aspx?id=42497 Opens a new window), 5nine V2V Easy Converter v6.4 ( -hyper-v-v2v-conversion-free.aspx Opens a new window) or some other utility (there are several) to convert your new VMware VM clone to Hyper-V.
5nine is an early adopter who jumped into the Hyper-V ecosystem back in 2009 with P2V planning software and a virtualization analysis and optimization solution. It's been one of the unsung heroes in the Hyper-V camp working to create a number of different free and paid solutions for Microsoft's hypervisor platform. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on where the money is concentrated (read, the VMware ecosystem), 5nine has been developing solutions for Hyper-V long before it was cool (or profitable).
V2V Easy Converter is a fast and easy-to-use migration tool. It's a standalone tool that doesn't require additional software licenses. And it runs on a free Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/SP1, or on other Microsoft platforms like Windows 7, or full or core editions of Server 2008 and Windows 8/Server 2012.
Probably, the most known and widely used tool is Free StarWind V2V Converter. It makes possible the conversion between all the most used VM formats: *.VMDK, StarWind *.IMG, *.VHD and *.VHDX, *.QCOW. In comparison with most converters, the solution from StarWind allows for dual-direction migration between different formats and hypervisors. StarWind V2V Converter can work with most hypervisors including Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, and KVM.
There are also third party tools: 5nine offers the free V2V Easy Converter and Vision Solutions has Double-Take Move which provides warm migrations where the VM is only down for a very short time. If you happen to have Net App storage they offer a PowerShell script (in ONTAP 2.3+) that will convert VMs directly on the storage array, taking the time from converting a VM from many minutes to seconds and not requiring any extra disk space.
Nachdem ich in meinem letzten Post den MVMC von Microsoft vorgestellt habe, möchte ich hier nun ein weiteres Tool für die Migration von VMware nach Hyper-V vorstellen. Für heute habe ich mir den Free 5nine V2V EasyConverter v2.0 der Firma 5Nine Software vorgenommen.
Eine Anmerkung habe ich noch zu machen. Mit dem 5nine EasyConverter ist es möglich, mehrere VMs zur Konvertierung zu markieren, die dann der Reihe nach bearbeitet werden. Dies ist durchaus nützlich, wenn man die VMs in einer unbeaufsichtigten Session, z.B. in einer Nacht, konvertieren lassen möchte!
I have just embarked on a project to v2v 250 VMs from vSphere 5.1 to Hyper-V 3.0. I thought I'd start a discussion string on v2v experiences. I have used the native v2v conversion with in VMM, 5nine's Easy Converter, Starwind's Converter and MVMC. I'm not happy with any of them. They are so inconsistent and frustrating, I see this project as literally taking years. Sometimes the VMM converter works, sometimes it just fails with crypt error messages. At the beginning it would crash the management interfaces on the ESXi servers but a ticket with VMware and increasing some system values solved that.
Even if I could get a product that works consistently, the fact that 5nine and VMM actually make 2 or 3 copies of the VMDKs during the conversion process is pretty ridiculous. I have had to carve out terabyte LUNs to attach to a Hyper-V host just to have enough scratch disk to convert, then watch the conversion take literally hours.
Although these are the only options that you have to configure, there is one element of this portion of the wizard that is easy to overlook. If you look at the image below, you will notice that the virtual machine name is listed on a drop-down menu. This drop-down list allows you to select a specific virtual machine, which means you can set the virtual machine paths and the virtual network connection separately for each virtual machine that you are migrating.
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5nine V2V Easy Converter it's a free tool that provides fast and easy migration of VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V. It performs non-intrusive conversions with the highest success ratio on the market. You can use it in any case that you want to convert a virtual machine from ESXi to HYPER-V.
The 2.0 version of 5nine V2V Converter supports conversion of VMware Virtual Machines with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64), and most of Advanced Server 2000, Ubuntu and CentOS configurations into VHD and VHDX file formats for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012/R2.
Some customers ran into limitations of vCD and are looking for alternatives. vCD is not an easy to use solution and is suited for vSphere and public clouds running VMware software only. The infrastructures of service providers and large enterprises is sometimes multi-hypervisor so vCD is not always the right match.
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