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Hello,<br />
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If I was running HyperV on Windows 2008R2, and wanted to move my virtual images (of servers) to another different physical server, with different hardware, how difficult is this?<br />
I am mainly concerned about compatibility of the VM's with the new hardware, or does the virtual drivers installed on each VM make it easy to move them?
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Hello,

If I was running HyperV on Windows 2008R2, and wanted to move my virtual images (of servers) to another different physical server, with different hardware, how difficult is this?
I am mainly concerned about compatibility of the VM's with the new hardware, or does the virtual drivers installed on each VM make it easy to move them?

How easy is it to move a VM with HyperV to different hardware?

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

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

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.