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Convert Physical machine to Virtual machine with MVMC 3.0

In this blog post I would like to show you how to convert Physical machine to Virtual machine with MVMC 3.0 which you can download from here. In this version of MVMC we can convert physical machine to virtual machine, other features are more or less the same.

New features in MVMC 3.0

The 3.0 release of MVMC adds the ability to convert a physical computer running Windows Server 2008 or above server operating systems or Windows Vista or above client operating systems to a virtual machine running on Hyper-V host.

Here you can read about standard features in MVMC.

Make sure you have the following pre-requisite on the computer on which you want to run MVMC and they are as follows:
1. Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 operating systems.

2. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and .NET Framework 4 if you install MVMC on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

3. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 if you install MVMC on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or Windows 8.

4. Visual C++® Redistributable for Visual Studio® 2012 Update 1

5. Enable the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) feature in Windows Server.

6. Enable Hyper-V on the destination host

NOTE: If you don’t enable features mentioned above will get this error:
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From the one side I have Physical machine with Windows Server 2012R2 installed on it, and from the other side I have Hyper-V host.

Here is a pictures guide how to convert ;)
Start MVMC and click Next
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On the next screen choose Physical machine conversion
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Enter the name or IP address and credentials of your physical machine under the Source then go ahead

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Click on Scan System to see system information
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Here we can see Volume Configuration

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On the next step we need to enter Virtual machine name, number of processors and Memory

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Here we need to fill Hyper-V host information

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Then we need to choose virtual machine and workspace location
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Then, Network Configuration
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At the end of the wizard we can see Summary and click on Finish to start conversion
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At the end of the conversion process you can see converted machine
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Enjoy in virtualization :)

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
October 28, 2014
Administration, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft MVP, MS Community, Virtualization, Windows Server 2012 R2
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Microsoft MVP (Hyper-V) Award the third time in a row

Three years in a row ;)

Every October 1st I have been waiting one very important e-mail from Microsoft and every year I’m excited like the first time when I became an MVP :)

“Dear Romeo Mlinar,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Hyper-V technical communities during the past year.
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say “Thank you for your technical leadership.”

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I’m honored and proud with this prestigious award. I would like to thank to Microsoft and to Sarah Cooley (Hyper-V PGI Lead) and Ben Armstrong (Virtual PC Guy) as well, to all my dear friends and MVP fellows from around the world. Special thanks to my MVP Lead Yulia Belynina and to my the first MVP Lead Alessandro Teglia.
Big, big, big thanks to my dear friends Marin Franković, Igor Pavleković, Adis Jugo, Nenad Trajkovski, Tomica Kaniški, Charbel Nemnom, Tomislav Lulić, Ognjen Bajic, Bernardin Katić, Tomislav Tipurić, Damir Dizdarević, Omar Kudović, Enis Šahinović, Ekobit’s management, big thanks to my family, my wife and my son for their support and many, many others (sorry guys if I forgot someone. Have no enough space here to mention all of you :) )

Let’s back to work!

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
October 2, 2014
Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft MVP
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MVP Global Summit 2013 – Part 2, It was better, it was great!

The second MVP Global Summit in one year! Awesome :)

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In 2013. Microsoft has organized two MVP Global Summit. The first was in February and the second in November. MVP Global Summit is the most important Microsoft conference for MVPs. At summit we have opportunity to hear what will be new in Microsoft products etc. but we are under NDA and can’t you tell anything ;). But most important is networking and friendship with other MVPs.

In my personally this summit was better then in February, much, much better :). We have had many opportunities to meet other MVPs and great people from Microsoft. I had the honor to meet whole Hyper-V team!

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Also, I had the honor to hang out with our MVP Lead Yulia Belyanina. Yulia, you are great, thumbs up. Thank you for all! ;)

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I would like to tell you more and more, but as I mentioned above, can’t! You will be hear when the time comes.

Until then, follow me ;)

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
November 27, 2013
Conferences, Microsoft MVP, MS Community
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