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How to Migrate to VMware for Hyper-V administrators [email protected] www.altaro.com

Agenda [email protected] www.altaro.com 1 Introductions 2 vSphere Architecture 3 Key Differences 4 Management Tools 5 Management Tool Demos 6 vSphere Converter Standalone 7 Q & A and Wrap-Up

About your host: Andy Syrewicze Technical Evangelist & Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management (Hyper-V) MVP Technical Evangelist for Altaro Software 14 Years providing technology solutions across several industry verticals Main focus: Virtualization, Cloud Services and the Microsoft Server Stack, with an emphasis on Hyper-V and VMware @asyrewicze www.altaro.com/hyper-v/ www.altaro.com/vmware/ 3

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Let’s set some expectations first . [email protected] www.altaro.com 5

Crash Course on VMware [email protected] www.altaro.com 6

VMware Architecture vCenter raffic Cluster/VM T VM ESXi Host Cluster/VM Traffic ffic a r T I/O Traffic I/O Traffic ESXi Host 7

VMware Licensing Tiers The needed level will depend on your needs vSphere Essentials Kit Best for Small Installations max of three 2-CPU Hosts Includes all the common stuff, vMotion, HA .etc.etc. vSphere Standard Common Entry point for organizations with 4 Hosts Includes things like Storage vMotion, Fault Tolerance, and VVols Windows Licensing Information You still have to license you Windows VMs Standard Edition Complete Windows Server Allows you to run 2 OSEs Datacenter Edition Complete Windows Server Allows you to run unlimited OSEs. vSphere Enterprise Plus Intended for larger organizations Includes things like container services, OpenStack, VM Encryption, DRS 8

Key Differences From Hyper-V Commonly Asked ESXi Config Maximums vCenter is Needed for Clustering! Hardware support while good, is more strict than Hyper-V. Be sure to reference the VMware HCL at: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?form OPRTSD&p c OPER Management is nearly 100% web based via flash or HTML 5 128 vCPUs per VM 6TB of memory per VM 62TB VMDK Capacity 1024 VMs per Host 64 Physical Nodes Per Cluster Some features are at a cluster level as opposed to a per VM level, such as HA. You are unable to install anything on the host directly 9

Managing VMware It’s a bit different than Hyper-V, and a bit easier 3 Different Management Tools Possible vSphere Host Client for Single Stand Alone Hosts vCenter for vSphere Clusters of all sizes PowerCLI – A VMware PowerShell Module Can be Managed by SCVMM for multihypervisor deployments. 10

Demo: Management Tools for vSphere [email protected] www.altaro.com 11

Interested in more PowerCLI Goodness? Take this! It’s Dangerous to go alone! Script shows you how to use PowerCLI and vSphere to deploy entire workloads Designed for beginners with very sequential coding Heavily Documented to help you understand what is happening in each section Learn more below http://www.altaro.com/vmware/powercl i-script-deploy-vms-and-configure-the-g 12 uest-os/

Migration Utilities for VMware [email protected] www.altaro.com 13

VMware vSphere Converter Great Tool Provided by VMware for Standalone Conversions Free to download and use Utility can be used for the vast majority of conversion tasks Can be run on the local machine, or against a remote machine Can be setup in a client-serveragent fashion for more complex conversion jobs Will automatically convert the machine directly into a VMware VM on a running ESXi host. https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p converter 14

Alternatives vSphere Converter Standalone works in the vast majority of cases, but if you need more . 3rd Party Conversion Utilities If the workload is easily movable (such as AD), consider just migrating the workload. If file based, consider scripted copy jobs and/or distributed filesystems and replication. 15

Demo: vSphere Converter Standalone [email protected] www.altaro.com 16

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LIVE Q&A! Your turn: Time to answer your questions! What questions do you have on today’s topic? Type your questions in the “Questions” box in GoToWebinar Reminder Any questions we can’t tackle today will be answered in an upcoming blog post on our Hyper-V blog: www.altaro.com/hyper-v/ Want to be notified when that’s published? Sign up for email updates here: www.altaro.com/hyper-v/sign-up/ 19

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