They do have 1 other Hyper-V host, and while it has the disk space and RAM available, I fear it would scarcely be worth it since it's RAID1 SATA on that host - 45 users hitting Exchange and 30 of those same folks hitting SQL via SATA interface...I can't imagine it'd be worthwhile.
Now that you mention it though might be a good DR test, and I do have that SBS server VHD's copied to that server every Friday (takes about 12 hours), and if I did it over the weekend when only the Police dept. is there performance shouldn't be an issue since they don't use SQL. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Reality check (an easy one) In the case of upgrading 2008 to 2008 R2, I've done it a handful of times with no complaints to note. In this specific case, it should be easy. If they have enough hardware, though, I would definitely use that, because there would be zero downtime and no real chance to have any problems. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:42 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Step 1 is very straightforward right? Going from 64-bit non-R2 to R2 can be > done in-place with no worries? I don't like in-place upgrades on Windows. Never have. Given how little configuration is living in your host OS, doing a clean install should be easy enough. Something to consider. Of course, by the same token, there's relatively little to go wrong with an in-place upgrade, so this may be excessive paranoia. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
