Hyper-V Migration

[KingCollins]

Hey guys, quick question, what's the easiest/quickest way to migrate a VM running in Hyper-V to another HDD? 

 

I stupidly installed my first VM on my OS drive and been meaning to move it for a while now cause it's sending my i/ops pretty high. All my other VM's are running on separate drives.

 

Any ideas?

[BloodKnight7]

3 hours ago, KingCollins said:

Hey guys, quick question, what's the easiest/quickest way to migrate a VM running in Hyper-V to another HDD? 

 

I stupidly installed my first VM on my OS drive and been meaning to move it for a while now cause it's sending my i/ops pretty high. All my other VM's are running on separate drives.

  

Any ideas?

Can you shut down the machine? You could just copy the vhd disk and attatch it to a new vm.

[DataEmo]

Right click -> Move -> Move the virtual's machine storage. Hyper-V can even move running VMs to different systems without rebooting the guest.

[KingCollins]

So I eventually got what I needed. I tried the "move" functionality but I got the error for "Live Migration not Supported", which is weird cause I am running Windows Server 2016

 

What I ended up doign was just exporting the VM, deleting the old one. And when I was importing the VM again I just changed the storage directory. Sounds like a pain but it did the trick!

 

Thanks for your responses!