The OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running non-vSphere guest operating systems in Linux or Windows environments.
Linux Environments
HCX supports various Linux-based 64-bit guest operating systems . The following hypervisors are validated viz. KVM and Hyper-V.
Supported Linux OS versions on KVM Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI) |
Supported Linux OS versions on Hyper-V Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI) |
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CentOS 6.1 - CentOS 6.10 |
RHEL 7.1 - RHEL 7.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
RHEL 6.1 - RHEL 6.10 |
RHEL 6.4 - RHEL 6.10 (BIOS/GEN-1 Only) |
CentOS 7.1 - CentOS 7.9 |
CentOS 7.0 - CentOS 7.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
RHEL 7.1 - RHEL 7.9 |
CentOS 6.4 - RHEL 6.10 (BIOS/GEN-1 Only) |
RHEL 8.0 - RHEL 8.9 |
RHEL 8.0 - RHEL 8.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4 |
CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Rocky Linux 8.4 - Rocky Linux 8.9
Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
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Rocky Linux 8.4 - Rocky Linux 8.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
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RHEL 9.0 - RHEL 9.3 | RHEL 9.0 - RHEL 9.3 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Rocky Linux 9.0 - Rocky Linux 9.3
Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
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Rocky Linux 9.0 - Rocky Linux 9.3 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS |
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS |
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS |
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
Windows Environments
HCX supports various 64-bit Windows guest operating systems on KVM or Hyper-V supervisors.
Supported OS versions on KVM Hypervisor |
Supported OS versions on Hyper-V Hypervisor |
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Windows Server 2019 |
Windows Server 2019 |
Windows Server 2016 |
Windows Server 2016 |
Windows Server 2012 |
Windows Server 2012 |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) |
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) |
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit) |
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit) |