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yeah, just shutdown the old servers, then edit settings on the new ones, choose add disk, select existing, and browse to the datastore/folder of the old servers and select the disk(s) you need.
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yeah, just shutdown the old servers, then edit settings on the new ones, choose add disk, select existing, and browse to the datastore/folder of the old servers and select the disk(s) you need.

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Hi Experts,<br />
We run our file servers (OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2) on VMware ESX 4.1 environment. Now, we intend to re-organize those file servers. We build several new Windows server 2008 R2 servers on the same VMware Host. <br />
Is there any way that we can mount the current disk volume to the new file server instead of robocopy all stuff from the current file servers to the new servers?<br />
Thanks,<br />

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Hi Experts,
We run our file servers (OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2) on VMware ESX 4.1 environment. Now, we intend to re-organize those file servers. We build several new Windows server 2008 R2 servers on the same VMware Host. 
Is there any way that we can mount the current disk volume to the new file server instead of robocopy all stuff from the current file servers to the new servers?
Thanks,


Mount the current disk volumes to a new server

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

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

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).