In my opinion, stand up a new server and migrate your data. It’ll be cleaner, you won’t have all the old hardware drivers knocking about using resources, and the outage for your users will be almost non-existent.
My only reservation will be having to set up a new PF database and replicate the content across, but only because I hate PF/replication with a passion. Have you considered the option to go to Exchange 2013 CU2? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: 09 September 2013 11:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 P2V? I am retiring the hardware my single Exchange 2010 server lives on. I have a shiny new Hyper-V 2012 deployment and I'm thinking of virtualizing Exchange. Are there any strong thoughts out there about doing a P2V of the server versus standing up a brand new one and moving the mailboxes and public folders? We have ~50 users and the databases are ~350GB in total size. I do not have SCVMM. (Can't afford it.) Cheers, RS
