How difficult is a virtual machine migration from Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer to VMware vSphere?
Virtual machines are encapsulated into a virtual disk file and several small companion files (i.e., BIOS, configuration), which makes for easy portability. However, migrating Hyper-V or XenServer VMs to vSphere is not as simple as copying those files to a vSphere server and powering on the VM. Because of incompatibilities among vSphere VMs and Hyper-V and XenServer VMs, you must first convert VMs to the format used by vSphere. Fortunately, a number of vSphere virtual machine migration tools exist to make this process fairly straightforward and easy.
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