Submitted by Jerome Laban - Blog: Jerome Laban's Blog
A tool that allows to move Hyper-V VMs without having to export them. It also works remotely with Hyper-V Server.
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This utility can also work remotely, particularly with Hyper-V Server 2008.
Here is a list of facts to know before using this tool :
- A VM can only be detached if it is in the "Saved" or "Stopped" state.
- It is not necessary to stop the Hyper-V service and all modifications are detected live by the service.
- A VM can only be imported if it contains at least on HDD on the IDE 0 controller.
- All the VM files must be under the same directory, HDD and snapshots.
- All files that are modified are backed-up next to the original files; All other files are not modified nor moved.
- .NET 3.5 must be installed.
- Both command line and GUI tools must run "as administrator".
- For remote operations, the current user must be an member of the administrators group of the remote system.
This could come in handy, particularly if you don’t have (can’t afford) SCVMM.
Yeah it looks like a nice tool. But VMM is worth its price anyway. $100 per host is really not that much.
SCVMM is full of bugs… so why bother with it.
I’m with Gaz E on this one. SCVMM is a terrible piece of software. Full of eccentric ‘can’t do’s and ‘can’t see’s on top of the myriad of bugs. Coming from a VMware background, SCVMM is NOT an enterprise class product. Any little tools that fill the gaps and make Hyper-V workable are a priceless.