Hello,
Hello, (Was looking for a migration forum so please move if this is not in the correct place)
We have a large 2003 file server that we need to migrate to Server 2012R2
We'd like to avoid having to copy any data and make this a simple procedure with little downtime.
Both the old and the new Server are running as VM's within VMware ESXi 5.1
The 2003 file server has nothing special running, no DFS etc. Just a plain old fileserver.
It has a C,D, and E drive (3 virtual disks) D and E contain the file shares.
I'd like to detach D and E (virtual disks) from the old 2003 Server and attach it to the new 2012 Server.
Then we'd export the "Shares" registry key from the 2003 box and import on the 2012 box.
(and handle renaming the new server to the same name as the old server via AD)
Has anyone done this without any major issues? I've read about possible 8 dot 3 naming issues and partition alignment.
I'm not sure if we'd have any issues with 8 dot 3. I'm not concerned about partition alignment as this server is not High I/O at all.
I understand that this is not the cleanest way to to this, but this will get us off of the unsupported 2003 platform.
I'm prepping a lab now to test, but I wanted to see if anyone had run into any issues if they tried this.
NTFS issues, etc.
Thanks for any input.