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that is what we are going to do thanks for the help<br />
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Rick
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that is what we are going to do thanks for the help

Rick

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I am working with a company and doing a network re-construction. &nbsp;Plan is to bring the network to Windows 2008 R2 and correcting non-standard items as found.<br />
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One of the non-standard items found, is the file server VM. &nbsp;T<br />
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here are two VHD's one of the OS, and one for the data. &nbsp;If I RDP into the file server VM, it looks like one server and functions like it should. &nbsp;However, if you need restore data from the server you need to mount the second VHD from backup in windows 7 and get the data you are looking for. &nbsp;After that incident I changed the way I backup and now backup the VM from inside so not a whole mount of a VHD, just the incremental's. &nbsp;This Server also has &nbsp;a lot of drive letters that can be consolidated down to just a few.<br />
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My question is: &nbsp;<br />
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They have a 2012R2 Member server not doing anything currently. can I dis-join this server from the network install Hyper-V bring up a Windows 2008R2 VM rebuild a new file server into one VHD file consolidate the drive letters and then take this new VHD file and import it into windows 2008 Hyper-Visor.<br />
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Thanks for the help and counsel,<br />
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Rick
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I am working with a company and doing a network re-construction.  Plan is to bring the network to Windows 2008 R2 and correcting non-standard items as found.

One of the non-standard items found, is the file server VM.  T

here are two VHD's one of the OS, and one for the data.  If I RDP into the file server VM, it looks like one server and functions like it should.  However, if you need restore data from the server you need to mount the second VHD from backup in windows 7 and get the data you are looking for.  After that incident I changed the way I backup and now backup the VM from inside so not a whole mount of a VHD, just the incremental's.  This Server also has  a lot of drive letters that can be consolidated down to just a few.

My question is:  

They have a 2012R2 Member server not doing anything currently. can I dis-join this server from the network install Hyper-V bring up a Windows 2008R2 VM rebuild a new file server into one VHD file consolidate the drive letters and then take this new VHD file and import it into windows 2008 Hyper-Visor.

Thanks for the help and counsel,

Rick

Windows HyperV 2012 to Windows HyperV - 2008

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.

Hyper-V

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

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.