Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC)
Microsoft
Free
Eol Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Both
Smb estates
Workload V2V P2V
What it is good at
Historically the official VMware-to-Hyper-V converter with VMware Tools removal and Hyper-V IC injection.
Where it falls down
Retired, unsupported, and blocked by modern vSphere API/TLS versions. Do not design new work around it.
Capabilities
- Automatic driver / guest tools injection
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Free — No licence cost from the vendor.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost (retired product)
- Licence model
- Was a free Microsoft download; retired in 2017 and no longer distributed or supported.
- How to license it
- Not available from Microsoft any more. Use Azure Migrate, StarWind V2V Converter or Veeam instead. Listed here only because it is still widely referenced in older runbooks.
- Lifecycle
- Eol
- Vendor page
- https://learn.microsoft.com/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Physical server - Windows
Supported targets
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)