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Windows 2003 Small Business Server hot P2V to ESXi?

riahc3

riahc3

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I want to virtualize a Windows 2003 Small Business Server I have here. Basically, I would make a copy of that server to a ESXi virtualize environment and this virtualize environment would not have network (so there would be no conflicting IPs or who is the primary DC, etc.) I would be just a test run to see how upgrade it to 2012 would go.

The server must not be shut down so it has to be a "hot" P2V.

How can I do this?
 
riahc3 said:
I want to virtualize a Windows 2003 Small Business Server I have here. Basically, I would make a copy of that server to a ESXi virtualize environment and this virtualize environment would not have network (so there would be no conflicting IPs or who is the primary DC, etc.) I would be just a test run to see how upgrade it to 2012 would go.

The server must not be shut down so it has to be a "hot" P2V.

How can I do this?
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You need to bring services down if you want a good image to work with in test otherwise things like AD, SQL, EXchange will be corrupted in the image. Also there is no upgrade path from 2003SBS -> 2012 it is entirely a migration to a new system.
 
imagoon said:
You need to bring services down if you want a good image to work with in test otherwise things like AD, SQL, EXchange will be corrupted in the image. Also there is no upgrade path from 2003SBS -> 2012 it is entirely a migration to a new system.
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SQL and Exchange are not up in the server.

And yes, I plan to do a incremental upgrade

2003SBS -> 2008 -> 2012

Thank you for point that out as I forgot to mention it.
 
riahc3 said:
SQL and Exchange are not up in the server.

And yes, I plan to do a incremental upgrade

2003SBS -> 2008 -> 2012

Thank you for point that out as I forgot to mention it.
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You can't upgrade SBS. It is migration only. There is no reason for the 2008 step either.
 
imagoon said:
You can't upgrade SBS. It is migration only. There is no reason for the 2008 step either.
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and you dont need to take down sbs. just migrate everything, roles are easy to migrate, file shares was the biggest pain but MS has a tool for that which [usually]] works well enough to copy data/shares and disable the sbs shares when its done.

if you dont have email or sql this really shouldnt be a big deal if you have done it before

it is "interesting" if you have not.
 
SBS is not a supported Guest OS for running on ESXi and you may run into issues. Migrate it to a VM and you won't have to do a P2V which can take a long time.
 
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