If you’re stuck with old 2003 VM’s, you can make yourself slightly less antiquated by upgrading them in-place to 2008. Since the 2003 servers are most likely running 32-bit Windows, you won’t be able to take the step up to 2008R2 or 2012 though. Before upgrading, make sure you download 2008 Service Pack 2 and […]

Virtualizing aging Windows 2000/ 2003 / 2008 / 2008R2 servers into Hyper-V virtual machines can be tricky, especially if the old servers are partitioned using GPT disks or Dynamic disks. Using the following steps will get you through the virtualization process in a few hours: – Use Microsoft’s free Disk2vhd tool to convert each partition […]

For larger network installations where 100% up-time is a must, we often join all physical servers into a “Hyper-V cluster”. In a cluster, two or more physical servers share the virtual workload among themselves. If one server goes down or is restarted because of Windows updates, all Virtual Machines will remain online and end-users will […]