Help migrating VMs from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI

Newbie052009 Lv1Posted 14 Mar 2024 17:43

Hello community,
I am trying to migrate around 30 VMs hosted on an old Hyper-V server to our new Sangfor HCI infrastructure, but I am stuck trying to export the VMs in a format that Sangfor HCI can import.
I also tried to directly copy the .vhd (and also converting it to qcow2) but using it as an existing disk on a new VM returns the following error:
  1. Create Failed. create VM operation failed. Error: Disk is invalid. Please check whether the disk is imported. If yes, contact technical support representative for troubleshooting
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Which is the correct way to migrate Hyper-V VMs to Sangfor HCI?
(bonus points if the migration can be done without shutting down the guest and especially host system)

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You may try below options

1. To export VMs from Hyper-V Manager
   - Open Hyper-V Manager on your Hyper-V server and locate the VM you want to export
   - right click the VM and select Export
   - select a destination folder to the exported VM files
   - click Export and wait until completion

2. Importing VMs thru Sangfor HCI
   - converting the exported Hyper-V files to OVF using 3rd party tools
   - Sangfor Virtual Machine Archive is Sangfor's native format designed for importing VMs into their HCI infrastructure
   - Sangfor Open Visualization Replica is another Sangfor format for VM import

You may also try other resources below:

Sangfor HCI User Manual: This document explains VM import/export functionalities, including supported formats PDF: https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-hci-user-manual.

Sangfor HCI_Import and Export Virtual Machine Guides: This YouTube video provides a visual guide to the import/export process (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sI3RY66ZMQ)
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1000THR Lv1Posted 18 Mar 2024 17:47
  
Hi AimanHakim, thanks for your input!
All VMs except for a domain controller are all Linux machines, I think I will try with the ISO (are you referring to the SCMT iso, correct?) and keep you updated

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