We are planning to migrate our virtual machines from ESX 3.5 and Virtual Centre 2.5 to Hyper v V3 on Hyper 2012 r2. The team brought in to complete this task was planning to use VMM 2012 SP1 and VMM 2012. VMM 2012 was to be the staging area to bring the VMDKs to VHD and then import again into VMM 2012 SP1 as VHDx. I have been advised that neither support Virtual Centre 2.5 and need a solution. I have looked into it and have identified that the VMM 2008 SP1 supports Virtual Centre 2.5.
Can I replace the 2012 VMM machine with a VMM 2008 SP1 machine and continue as planned?
Please advise