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Moving and consolidating two Windows 2003 servers to new hardware using Hyper-V Server

I have a client with a WIndows 2003 Small Business Server and a Windows 2003 Standard member server (terminal server) who wants replace both servers but is on a limited budget.

The question here is, could we create P2V conversions of the existing servers, migrate/import and host the VHDs on new hardware running Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?

djhayu

What I have done in the past is if you upgrade SBS 2003 to 2008, you will be given to license to run the host machine without lossing a license. You can then instll SBS 2008 in a VM and then migrate the SBS 2003 to the SBS 2008 installation.

Here are the instructions to migrate 2003 to 2008:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=52b7ea63-78af-4a96-811e-284f5c1de13b&displaylang=en

NtegraIT

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Thanks for the comment.

The customer has already purchased a new server without an OS, which meets the hardware requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V Server, but is at this time unable to come up with the funds to purchase SBS 2008/Server 2008 and the required licensing.

We would like to take advantage of this new server and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, since it's free, and convert both the SBS 2003 server and the 2003 server to VHDs and hosting them as VMs on the new server. The question is..... is it possible?

djhayu

Check out this link:

http://wss.citrictechnology.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=13

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