Has anyone here P2V'd a couple of DC's? I P2V'd an SBS server in test and it 
went fine - my concern is how to handle it in production when there's a SBS 
server AND a 2nd DC involved. At some point I need to make the 2nd DC think 
that the first DC was just powered off for a bit. Would it work if I:


1)      Do an offline P2V (read: the system (ServerA) P2V does a PXE boot into 
the host Hyper-V machine to get VM'd),

2)      Leave physical ServerA off once it's P2V'd

3)      Bring up the VM of ServerA?

My thinking here is each DC would just think ServerA was powered off for a few 
hours, does this sound correct?

Question 2: If I need to roll back to physical ServerA....ServerB (the 2nd DC) 
will now have thought it's talked to ServerA since the P2V outage, but 
effectively ServerA will have suffered a time warp by several hours, right?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
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