Physical to virtual (P2V)
I have an old windows 2003 server that is having hardware problems. I would like to move that server to a virtual machine running on a physical server windows 2012.
Is that possible?
if so, could you please point me in the right direction on how to do it successfully.
how does the virtual machine interpret drivers/hardware?
they physical server is an active directory server and file sharing server. it has shared drives and data and a few users.
Is that possible?
if so, could you please point me in the right direction on how to do it successfully.
how does the virtual machine interpret drivers/hardware?
they physical server is an active directory server and file sharing server. it has shared drives and data and a few users.
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does that make sense? anything else i should know?
Single DC?
Then go for it....do it at a quiet time out of hours with no users on network.
Then go for it....do it at a quiet time out of hours with no users on network.
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yes. it's for only 7 users. pretty basic setup. i'll give it a shot and then report back early next week.
Okay complete the Disk2VHD with all users off and create your VM and then power down physical and never turn on again
Turn on VM add IP address to VM
Turn on VM add IP address to VM
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the problem is that server has critical software that can't be migrated to a new box. so that's why i need to virtualize the 2003 server on new hardware.