Hyper-V to XCP-ng

MrNaz

We have a Hyper-V server with 3 VMs. The client has finally given us the green light to upgrade the ancient hardware and also migrate to XCP-ng. Yay!

However we are having difficulty. We have exported one VM's VHD and are trying to import it into XO. We have set up a temporary network share for the purpose of making the VHD available. Here are the steps we are trying to follow:

Copy the VHD onto the network share.
Create a VM in xcp-ng with no disks.
Attach the VHD to the new VM.
Move the new VM's disk to local storage.

Any guidance or tips or guides on migrating from Hyper-V to xcp-ng would be great.

I have one question about all this though: The xcp-ng host is set up to use LVM. Given that VHDs are used in EXT mode, is the fact that we have xcp-ng with LVM set up possibly what is causing us problems with using VHDs?

olivierlambert

Hi,

2 options:

If not done yet, take a look at https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#from-hyper-v
If you want dedicated assistance on your migration, you can ask at https://vates.tech/contact

About VHDs and LVM: it will be harder, because it means you'll have to inject the VHD inside the logical volume instead of just dropping the right VHD file into the folder with ext.

planedrop

Like @olivierlambert mentioned it would be best to go with ext instead of LVM, makes the migration process a lot easier.

I've gone through a similar migration and it was super smooth using ext.