Correct order to migrate license and upgrade winodws 2016 evaluation vSphere clients to Hyper-v licensed 2019 clients

Question

I have several servers running windows server 2016 evaluation as vSphere guests. We have purchased a new server with windows 2019 datacenter and are converting, upgrading and migrating the 2016 evaluation version vSphere guests to the 2019 datacenter server. My question is what order should I do this to make the cleanest transition- Should I upgrade the machines from evaluation 2016 to 2019 (if that is even possible) and then migrate them or move them to the new server and then upgrade them.

Answer 1

Hi,

1. Please try to check the following article about how to convert vSphere VMs to Hyper V host:
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/vm-convert-vmware?view=sc-vmm-2019
2. Since the Hyper V host is Server 2019 datacenter, VMs on datacenter hosts are licensed.
3. Please try to check the following article how to upgrade evaluation version to full version:

http://woshub.com/how-to-upgrade-windows-server-2016-evaluation-to-full-version/

(Please note: Information posted in the given link is hosted by a third party. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy and effectiveness of information)

Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Anne

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