How to Perform Hyper-V P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration is a process that moves an existing physical server into a virtual environment. This helps organizations reduce hardware costs, speed up server deployment, create portable test or development copies, and improve disaster recovery—all without the need to reinstall the operating system, applications, or settings.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery makes P2V migrations simple and reliable. With Vinchin, you can migrate physical servers not only to Hyper-V but also to other popular virtualization platforms like VMware, oVirt, RHV, OLVM, Proxmox, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor HCI, Huawei Fusion Compute, H3C CAS/UIS, Arcfra, KayGrid, InCloud Sphere, FusionOne Compute, ZStack, and OpenStack. This flexibility gives your IT team more options for consolidation and disaster recovery.

How to perform Hyper-V P2V Conversion with Vinchin?

Prerequisites

Vinchin supports easy Hyper-V P2V conversion in simple steps but you should have a backup of the physical server created by Vinchin before. So far, Vinchin supports backing up physical servers which are installed with operating systems including Windows, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Debian, SUSE, openSUSE, CentOS and CentOS Stream.

Migration Steps

You can easily perform Hyper-V P2V conversion in 4 steps:

Step 1. Select the backup data of physical server in Vinchin Backup & Recovery

Step 2. Select the target host as the destination

Step 3. Select the strategies

Step 4. Submit the job

Ready to try it yourself? Download our trial version today for a full-featured 60-day free trial. You can test all migration features at no cost—our engineers are here to help you troubleshoot any issues and make sure your virtual machine migrations go smoothly from start to finish!