Jun 21 2018 07:44 PM
Hi All,
I have a customer who is looking at deploying an Exchange 2016 DAG on VMWare, however, have a requirement to migrate to Hyper-V when the platform is ready.
My guess is that converting Exchange members as part of a DAG from vmdk to vhdx shouldn't even be considered given the changes to the disk architecture? (underlying storage will also change as they will be moving to a new SAN solution).
Would the best approach here be deploy new Exchange 2016 servers on the Hyper-V platform and migrate the mailboxes?
Thank you
Jun 21 2018 10:11 PM
No reason you couldn't do that. Found an older article but it should be similar. See answer in this article: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/625473-exchange-server-migrate-from-vmware-to-hyper-v
Jul 18 2018 08:40 AM
Hi,
even though that it's technical possible, I'd prefer to setup new servers on the new hypervisor, as do not have any information if there any issues with the remaining drivers of the old hypervisor.
At least I'd create new data volumes following the recommended architecture. I guess that the storage itself is provided in a different way than it was in the old hypervisor platform.
-Thomas
Jul 18 2018 02:33 PM