Physica to virtual migration of 4 TB disk Machine from VMware to hyper-v

Hi Team ,
I have virtual machine running on VMware with disk size of 4 TB.. 2/2 TB VMdk combined into 4 TB. since earlier VMware has 2 TB vmdk limitation. i am moving my environment from VMware 4.x to windows 2012.
i have done few p2V successfully but in this case disk are not visible on SCVMM console. Please let me know if i have any other option to migrate 4 TB machine.
Thanks in advance.
Ravi
Ravi

Hi Ravi,
"then both 2 TB disk merged and presented as 4 TB partition to windows OS."
 I assume that it is spanned volume .
After  "merge"  , the 4TB disk become a data disk to provide file share in the windows OS .
At this situation , my suggestion is Migrating your file server to a new VM.
As for file server migration , please refer to following link:
https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/06/30/microsoft-file-server-migration-toolkit-1-2-available-as-a-free-download.aspx
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