Please Note : This is not officially supported by Nutanix - and is suitable for a small Physical to Virtual conversion. Power off the VM and Power it back on. The converted Windows Server should boot successfully. Windows should boot normally, if this windows server was booting from a UEFI partition, the Virtual Machine won't boot successfully. Once the converted VHD is uploaded to the Image Service, we can now create a new VMĬreate the new VM as you normally would (vCPU / RAM / Network), when adding a new disk:Ĭ) Mark Bootable for the appropriate disk
Uploading VHD to the Cluster via Image Service:Ģ) Image service also allows for uploading files via http source (existing or new web-server required) Nutanix Portal > Downloads > Tools & Firmware > VirtioĢ) Download Disk2VHD from Microsoft site:ģ) Convert the Disk or Disks (Make sure to select 'bootable' for the appropriate disk)Ĥ) Upload the Converted Disk to Nutanix Cluster via Image service Nutanix Image Service supports VHD, VMDK, vDISK, IMG, qcow formats for disk images.ġ) Prepare the Physical Windows Server - Install Virtio Drivers from: Physical Windows Server to Virtual conversion (P2V for AHV)ĭepending on the number of physical servers in your environment, you might want to convert them tovirtual servers and migrate over to Nutanix AHV.
