Hi,
I will be performing a migration between physical servers and I would like to ask for some advice regarding the migration process:
We currently have a physical server with Hyper-V running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP2, which is hosting 4 virtual machines. These virtual machines now need to be migrated to our cluster servers. The four cluster servers are all running Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition and they are our failover cluster servers.
My question is related to how would I go about moving the four virtual machines including their vhd's and all data associated with them to our cluster servers? --- Can I move everything (virtual machine folders, snapshot folders, and the vhd's) all at one time?
For example,. the four virtual machines that need to be moved are located in their respective folders:
-D:\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\PE Apps --- contains 2 vhd's
-D:\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\PE Itasca --- contains 1 vhd
D:\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\PE License --- contains 1 vhd
-D\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\PE Staff --- contains 1 vhd's
The above folders contain subfolders: snapshots, virtual machines, and vhd's. How would I go about moving these to our Hyper-V cluster? Furthermore, the 4 four virtual machines have their own virtual network---Will this change with the migration or will their configured virtual network stay as is?
PE Staff will only have its storage vhd migrated and not the vm itself. How would I go about migrating its storage vhd to a virtual machine on the Hyper-V cluster?
Thanks in advance