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Nothing special. It still works the same way.
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Nothing special. It still works the same way.

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Is the process to create a new VM with the existing vhd file for the System OS, then add the extra drives and add the drive letter mapping.
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Is the process to create a new VM with the existing vhd file for the System OS, then add the extra drives and add the drive letter mapping.

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Thanks for your help. I was eventually able to complete the move. Great Advice.
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Thanks for your help. I was eventually able to complete the move. Great Advice.

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Hi,<br />
I am preparing to move a Virtual Machine. This VM is configured with Hyper-V and uses a total of 3 separate .vhd files for its drive structure. I am moving this to a different host which has more resources for increasing performance.<br />
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I have moved Virtual Machines before but they all used a single .vhd file.<br />
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How should I prepare to migrate a more complex Virtual Machine with multiple .vhd files.<br />
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Thanks for your suggestions.
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Hi,
I am preparing to move a Virtual Machine. This VM is configured with Hyper-V and uses a total of 3 separate .vhd files for its drive structure. I am moving this to a different host which has more resources for increasing performance.

I have moved Virtual Machines before but they all used a single .vhd file.

How should I prepare to migrate a more complex Virtual Machine with multiple .vhd files.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Hyper-V VM Migrations that uses Multiple .VHD fi

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.

Microsoft Virtual Server

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.