Converting VMware VMs to Hyper-V

Our company is looking to try out Hyper-V as a server virtualization solution so I am looking for the most efficient way to test everything out safely. My plan is to make a snapshot backup of each of the 10 VMware VMs (these are live production servers) and then use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter to convert the snapshots into Hyper-V files. Then I would install Hyper-V services on a test machine running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition and upload the converted VMs into Hyper-V. Being new to networking, does this sound like a solid plan? What potential issues could I run into?

Reading MVMC guides makes it seem like once the VM is converted and uploaded onto the destination server, it shuts itself down on the source. Is there a way to cleanly convert VMware snapshots into Hyper-V files?

Sorry if this post is confusing, please advise.

Solution 1:

I haven't used it myself, but I know Starwind has a free VM image converter available on their site. Here's some more info on that: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter

One thing worth noting is that it sounds like their converter makes the conversion without affecting the VM's operations, but I don't have any experience with it to be sure of that.

Solution 2:

I don't have enough rep to comment, so I'll just put this here.

After using several hypervisors, Hyper V, VMWare, Xen, I'd suggest saving yourself some trouble and not converting at all. If you have the tooling in place you would be much better off just building your environment again.

This way you can also be sure that none of the VMs have the same networking, etc, as the current production environment.