Background
I have machines running windows server 2003, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. I want to virtualize them all. They are part of a large system we built and maintain. We are in the process of redesigning the system and the plan is to
run the old system components as VM's on one big server and build the new system on the same server. This makes for an efficient development setup and we can design and test the upgrade incrementally. We have an incremental rollout where the system must use
old and new components.
My question is; if I use the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V how do I capture the running versions of the systems and make them VM's?
A related question; The server I plan to use as the VM server is a heavy-duty HP box that is running Windows Server 2003. (16 cores, 64 GB memory and 8TB SAS) Can I install Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without having to go thru the whole install / configuration process?
Thanks for any guidance.