Risk with adding Hyper-V?

webby1 · 02 Jun 2019

Is it a risk to add Hyper-V on our local server or does it have any impact? Just an extra tool?

Need to convert a VHDX to VHD (file) due to migration to Azure. (Windows 2012 Server R2)

cereberus · 02 Jun 2019

webby1 said:

Is it a risk to add Hyper-V on our local server or does it have any impact? Just an extra tool?

Need to convert a VHDX to VHD (file) due to migration to Azure. (Windows 2012 Server R2)

You do not need to install Hyper-V to convert a vhd to a vhdx file if that is what you want to do.

Simply create a vhdx file of same or larger capacity as vhd file.

TThen mount both vhd and vhdx files as drive and clone vhd to vhdx using Macrium Reflect Free.

lx07 · 02 Jun 2019

Or just use Convert-VHD –Path c:\test\MY-VM.vhdx –DestinationPath c:\test\MY-NEW-VM.vhd

Converting Hyper-V .vhdx to .vhd file formats for use in Windows Azure