Not sure if this is a VMM 2012 R2 or Hyper V 2012 R2 post but here goes.
We want to P-2-V a number of servers to a new Hyper V 2012 R2 Cluster (with VMM 2012 R2 looking after it all). We all know that Microsoft (in their wisdom) have removed the P-2-V feature in the R2 version of VMM (well done! - not). Their official workaround is to use the 2012 version and then migrate that to 2012 R2! But VMM 2012 will only 'talk' to Hyper V 2012, so you have to create a whole environment to do this! Mad...
Has anyone dealt with this in their environment? Does anyone have any recommendations for inexpensive tools to achieve this? I should say that this needs to be completed in live environment so that we can then just flick over from the physical source to the virtual 'clone' one evening with no real downtime.
Thanks for any feedback.
Phil