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Cool thanks guys. I appreciate the info I want to award all 3 of ya
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Cool thanks guys. I appreciate the info I want to award all 3 of ya

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Hi all,<br />
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Our shop is currently utilizing Virtual server 2005 R2 &nbsp;on windows server 2003. Do any of you know what it would take to migrate those virtual servers to virtual server 2008. In other words when we update to 2008, can you use the vab files from VS 2005R2 and convert to virtual server 2008 or will you need to rebuild everything again?<br />
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Also what are some of the advantages/ improvements to virtual server 2008?
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Hi all,

Our shop is currently utilizing Virtual server 2005 R2  on windows server 2003. Do any of you know what it would take to migrate those virtual servers to virtual server 2008. In other words when we update to 2008, can you use the vab files from VS 2005R2 and convert to virtual server 2008 or will you need to rebuild everything again?

Also what are some of the advantages/ improvements to virtual server 2008?

Migration from virtual server 2005 R2 to Windows Server 2008 Virtualization

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).