Hi folks,
I have two Dell R-170 servers both running Server 2008 R2 and Hyper -V, each with two VM's installed and running. One of the physical servers is beginning to run low on disk space. I would like to move one of my VM's (about a 200Gb .vhd) from one server to another, so I will havce 3 VM's on one server and only one on the other at least temporarily. Likely I will move a smaller one from the one machine to the other later on to balance them out.
Anyway, the VM I want to move is a SBS 2008 server, which is running Exchange and is the DC for the domain. Any special considerations based upon that information?
I want to make sure I do the right steps to properly move that VM from one physical server to the other and have it come back online smoothly. Can someone point me to the proper steps to take? Here is what I think they are, but I'm not 100% sure.
Shutdown the VM on the current physical server.
Copy the VM's .vhd file to either an external drive or network copy to the new physical server.
Create the VM in Hyper-V on the new server, get the network configured (Can you copy the settings from the old host?)
Boot the VM on the new server and it should work now?
Tell the VM on the old server to not restart except manually, then after verifying all is working well on the new host, delete the VM and the .vhd file to recapture disk space.
Can someone point me in the right direction to do this properly. Since it's my DC and my Exchange server I really want to do this right the first time.
Thanks!