Hi All,
We wants to migrate 2 virtual machines from one location to another location.
Present Location :- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (IBM X3400 M3)
VM 1 - Server 2008 R2 Standard with Additional Domain Controller and Exchange Server 2010 SP3 in size of 1.3 TB
VM 2 - Server 2008 R2 Standard with Primary Domain Controller in size of 50 GB
New Location :- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (HP DL 380P Gen 8)
Last Sunday we have tried export and Import which is failed because I get to know that exported from Server 2008 R2 cant import on Server 2012 R2. It took 15 hours to export 1.3 TB VM :-( and it failed.
Now my question is :-
Option A - Can we move our entire Datacetre to new location which I don't want to do
OR
Option B - Just copy VHD and paste it on new server and create new VM and attach it. If I uses this option than my VM with ADC with Exchange and VM with PDC will work or not? Because of Machine ID and hardware will get changed.
or any other you can suggest. Exchange and DC on risk and I am not an expert of Exchange Server and Domain controller.
Thanks for Help