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 on KVM or Hyper-V hypervisors.
| Supported Linux OS versions on KVM Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI) |
Supported Linux OS versions on Hyper-V Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI) |
|---|---|
| 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 8.8 |
RHEL 8.0 - RHEL 8.8 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
| CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4 |
CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) |
| 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) |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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) |
