Hi All
I have a planned upgrade of a system that is currently running Server 2008 R2 Ent, with four Virtual Servers on hyper-v all running Server 2008 R2, one Domain controller, one exchange server (Exchange 2010), one Sql server with an accounting Package and one sql server with a Autodesk package.
The phase one of the upgrade is to replace the current Server 2008 R2 operating system with Server 2016, its easy enough as the VHDs themselves do not reside on the system partition of the RAIDed data set. and then to get the Hyper-v's running as is, on the server 2016 OS.
The second phase is upgrading the Virtual operating systems to server 2016.
My question is, will this process be simple enough? ie. Reinstall with server 2016 and simply import the virtual machines into the server 2016 hyper-v manager? or is this even possible or not? or are there resources somewhere I can look at. I have googled and come up with nothing relevant.
What are the steps to upgrade a host operating system from Server 2008R2 to Server 2016 and still have the server 2008 R2 virtual machines still boot up on the server 2016?
thank you for your help in advance.