Hi
I have a single physical server running Windows 2012 R2 as a Domain Controller and Exchange Server 2016.
I need to migrate it to a temporary proxmox 5.2 hypervisor and test as fully working.
Then I need to destroy the current physical server and install proxmox 5.2 on that bare metal.
Then move the VM from the temp server to the final proxmox 5.2 server.
I'm happy with the last part. I.e. connecting the two proxmox hypervisors in a cluster and moving the VM over to the final destination and then remove the temp from the cluster.
The bit I need pointing in the right direction with (especially as this is a production server) is the migration from a PM to VM using Proxmox 5.2.
Some of the articles seem to be dated and for older versions of Proxmox. For example they refer to the disk images as qcow files when on my Proxmox 5.2 they are logical volumes (lv). One article refers to using an application called selfimage, but that's old and support for it stopped at Windows Vista, and this Windows 2012 R2
Of course there is the added concern this is a AD controller and also running Exchange.
I'm after pointers or better still a step-by-step on migrating a Physical Machine (PM) Windows 2012R2 ADDC to Proxmox 5.2 VM.
Many thanks in advance.
I have a single physical server running Windows 2012 R2 as a Domain Controller and Exchange Server 2016.
I need to migrate it to a temporary proxmox 5.2 hypervisor and test as fully working.
Then I need to destroy the current physical server and install proxmox 5.2 on that bare metal.
Then move the VM from the temp server to the final proxmox 5.2 server.
I'm happy with the last part. I.e. connecting the two proxmox hypervisors in a cluster and moving the VM over to the final destination and then remove the temp from the cluster.
The bit I need pointing in the right direction with (especially as this is a production server) is the migration from a PM to VM using Proxmox 5.2.
Some of the articles seem to be dated and for older versions of Proxmox. For example they refer to the disk images as qcow files when on my Proxmox 5.2 they are logical volumes (lv). One article refers to using an application called selfimage, but that's old and support for it stopped at Windows Vista, and this Windows 2012 R2
Of course there is the added concern this is a AD controller and also running Exchange.
I'm after pointers or better still a step-by-step on migrating a Physical Machine (PM) Windows 2012R2 ADDC to Proxmox 5.2 VM.
Many thanks in advance.