Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019: Practical Guidance and Hands-On Labs

© Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway 2018

Andy Syrewicze and Richard SiddawayPro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4116-5_15

15. Moving Existing Workloads to Hyper-V

Andy Syrewicze¹  and Richard Siddaway²

(1)

Jenison, MI, USA

(2)

Baston, Lincolnshire, UK

 

Now that you’ve built this nice, shiny brand-new Hyper-V environment, how do you use it to its full potential? Like most administrators, you’re most likely not planning on only provisioning new workloads on this environment. You have existing workloads on physical servers that are providing services on your network, and for most of those, it doesn’t make sense to rebuild them from the ground up. You have to migrate them into your virtualized environment. This is known as a physical-to-virtual ...