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Rebuilding from scratch, did you uninstall the Host agents, build the new server, then re-install the agents?
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Rebuilding from scratch, did you uninstall the Host agents, build the new server, then re-install the agents?

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Our current VMM server (2008 R2) is on 2008 SP1 64 bit and would like to rebuild it to run 2008 R2. The DB is on a remote 64 bit SQL server. &nbsp;I know I can mearly upgrade the VMM server but am not a fan of upgrades. I am thinking of rebuilding, install VMM R2, point to the DB and hook the Libraries back up which is on a SAN should work fine but wanted to see if anyone has any real experience with this before I begin. Any gotchya's etc..<br />
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Thanks.
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Our current VMM server (2008 R2) is on 2008 SP1 64 bit and would like to rebuild it to run 2008 R2. The DB is on a remote 64 bit SQL server.  I know I can mearly upgrade the VMM server but am not a fan of upgrades. I am thinking of rebuilding, install VMM R2, point to the DB and hook the Libraries back up which is on a SAN should work fine but wanted to see if anyone has any real experience with this before I begin. Any gotchya's etc..

Thanks.

Rebuild VMM Server Procedure

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.