What if one day you wake up and decided to give AHV a shot? But wait… you are running ESXi.
Hmm… If only there was a way to convert ESXi to AHV.
Well… there is a feature called “In-place hypervisor conversion” to save the day.
But what about the VMs?
All the VMs that are running in the ESXi cluster are converted so that they can run on the AHV cluster.
Following are the enhancements to this feature are:-
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Decreased VM downtime.
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The state of the VM is preserved and the VM is brought back into the same state post-conversion.
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Preservation of the MAC addresses of the VM NICs after conversion
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The Prism console is responsive during the conversion process. However, the Prism goes into Read-Only state.
You can check out the requirements and limitations for In-place hypervisor conversion here.
Finally ready to give AHV a run after going through the requirements?
To start the conversion, follow the document here
Have any questions? Drop a comment and let us start a discussion.