Virtual Migration Scenario
I am looking to migrate our current EV environmnet from physical to virtual servers. A P2V scenario is currently off the table, so I am thinking of using the DR process and update the service location to new VM's.
The EV servers are currently on Windows 2003 servers, and I would like to run Windows 2008 on the VM's. Would any of you foresee any issues with this scenario?
To verify JW2 statement, I did do a large migration (P2V) (15mbx archiving, 9jnl archiving) and all went well. I do agree your VM-hardware needs to be up to specs. It still runs fine (AFAIK).
In another project, we migrated EV servers to W2008R2 (EV8SP4 btw) as follows:
Created new machine, installed prereqs, run deploymentscanner.
Stop EV on old machine
Migrate data from old to new.
Verified migration succesfull
Changed Alias to point to new machine
Installed EV
Used 'old' alias and pointed that to new machine
Configured EV
start EV
monitor monitor monitor ;-)
decommisioned old machine.
This worked well, provided you do use aliasses. It is sort of USL, DR combined.