Getting Started, Converting the OVF for Hyper-V

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The Windows Hyper-V technology does not fully support the OVF industry standard. Microsoft documents a complex and somewhat limited procedure on their page about converting OVF files to Hyper-V. There are third-party conversion tools available that simplify this deployment scenario, for example StarWind’s free V2V Converter  which worked well in our tests.

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