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I need to replace a server... migration advice?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chinny Chukwudozie Nov 23, 2009.

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Chinny Chukwudozie replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

Your best route here could be to implement Virtualization Technology using vmware tools.You could use the VMware convert to quickly create a "copy" of your exchange server on top of an ESXi4.0 hypervisor host managed with a vsphere…

Nov 23, 2009

Matt Simmons replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

Paul, Thanks for the kind words :-) I think I can speak for Jeff when I say that we just genuinely like helping people. I was thinking along the same lines as you, that the Virtual Infrastructure Client was commercial, but according to the…

Jun 28, 2009

Paul Greeff replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

John, I'm enjoying VMWare Server. It seems to be very light on resources compared with MS Virtual PC, which is great. My poor workstation at the office is my VM host at this stage, so I'm dying to get this function moved to a server. I…

Jun 28, 2009

Paul Greeff replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

I agree with Matt - very helpful information. I'm really new to enterprise-level virtualisation, so the management side of it is totally foreign to me. ESXi is free, yes, but then the management client is not, am I right? As for Hyper-V, I see…

Jun 28, 2009

Matt Simmons replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

Awesome post, Jeff. Thanks!

Jun 27, 2009

Jeff Hengesbach replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

My biggest comment on Hyper-V versus VMware is maturity. They are both well supported products from strong vendors and each has a free/low cost option. VMWare has been doing virtualization on x86 for a long time (in technology years) and they have…

Jun 27, 2009

John McGrath replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

I am currently running VM Server with my VM's also. It does a fine job for what I use it for, and the interface (VM client) allows you to pretty much what you would if you were sitting in front of the machine. I don't have experience with…

Jun 26, 2009

Matt Simmons replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

I don't have the expertise that you're looking for, but I pay attention to what other people say, so here's what I know, and what I've heard: I currently use vmware server 2.x to host my VMs. It does require an underlying…

Jun 26, 2009

Paul Greeff replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

That certainly is a good point, and I'm playing with virtualisation at the moment. I'm leaning towards either VMWare Server or Server 2008 Core with Hyper-V. What I like about the concept of Hyper-V is that there is no dependancy on the…

Jun 26, 2009

Matt Simmons replied to Paul Greeff's discussion 'I need to replace a server... migration advice?'

I've not done anything like this before, but before you take the plunge, might I bend your ear toward a possible virtualization solution? It seems to be the way of the world that more and more services are moving onto VMs. If you did this now,…

Jun 25, 2009

I need to replace a server... migration advice?

Hello allI have a monster of a machine running as an Exchange Edge server and would like to replace it with a machine more appropriately sized. The problem, of course, is down-time. Conventional methods involve setting up a second server, clustering the Edge role, and then shutting down the original Edge. I've considered using bare-metal restore technology, which seems to be quite neat, but I'm nervous to try to fool the HT and CAS server that this "new" Edge server is the same one that's been…See More

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