Hi We currently have a 2 node VMware cluster connected to an iSCSI SAN running esx 4.1. Our VMware maintenance runs out in just under a years time and we would like to plan a migration from VMware to hyper-v. All of our infrastructure sits on the SAN.
(We do have replicated dr and backup but that's not important) What we want to do is migrate all guests from VMware to hyper-v with as little down time and risk as possible. We also have a 3 node hyper-v node connected to a much smaller iSCSI SAN which we
have been using for testing. We have been exploring ways to get all our servers migrated, but the sticking point is the storage. We can host 5 of our 20 servers on the hyper-v storage but then we would run out of space. Is it feasible to migrate these 5 servers,
then delete the LUNs from the VMware storage, recreate and attach to hyper-v and use to store more of the migrated devices? Is this a sensible approach, or is there a much simpler way that we've missed. For info, we are a high school, and don't have the finance
to purchase more storage. We do have an education version of System Centre if this would make the process any simpler. We also run Veeam essentials for replication and backup, but its only currently licences for the VMware hosts. Any help/advice/pointers would
be appreciated.
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