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Is there a straight upgrade path from 2008 to 2012 on server running hyper-v , there seems to be so much confusing information on the net, some sites saying its a straigh forward upgrade so long as all VM's are powered off and others saying you cant do this . Confused
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Is there a straight upgrade path from 2008 to 2012 on server running hyper-v , there seems to be so much confusing information on the net, some sites saying its a straigh forward upgrade so long as all VM's are powered off and others saying you cant do this . Confused

server 2008 with hyper v upgrade to sever 2012

Is there a straight upgrade path from 2008 to 2012 on server running hyper-v , there seems to be so much confusing information on the net, some sites saying its a straigh forward upgrade so long as all VM&#39;s are powered off and others saying you cant do this . Confused

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

A server is a computer program or a machine that waits for requests from other machines or software (clients) and responds to them. This architecture is called the client–server model. The clients may run on the same computer or may connect to the server over a network. The purpose of a server is to share data or hardware and software resources among clients. Typical computing servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.

Server Software

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.