I have two Win2k8R2 SP1 x64 hyper-v VM's
They reside on a dedicated physical server at a hosting company.
The hosting company provided the VHD files that I used to create the VM's years ago.
As the VM's are in production, I would like to download backups of the VHD files (there are no snapshots) and perform in-place upgrades to Server 2012 and then to 2016. Due to the complexity of what's on these VM's, migrating the content to a fresh OS
is not an option.
The hosting company no longer supports Hyper-V, so they likely will not provide me with media to do the in-place upgrades. For clarity: The hosting company will allow me to use Hyper-V, but they won't provide support for it.
My goal is to perform the in-place upgrades and then stand up the upgraded VM's on a fresh dedicated Server Datacenter 2016 hypervisor back at the hosting company. As I understand it the hosting company's Datacenter volume license will cover the guest VM's.
I tried performing the 2008 to 2012 upgrade using a Server 2102 R2 Evaluation ISO from Microsoft but it resulted in an error. Apparently a licensed Win2k8R2 VM cannot be upgraded to Win2012R2 using an Evaluation ISO. I don't know if this is true.
My question is: How can I get the Server 2012R2 and 2016 media to perform the in-place upgrades? And what if anything do I need to know about licensing as it pertains to the above scenario?
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2008R2 VM: How to get 2012R2 upgrade media/iso?
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