"With the experience of doing several hundred migrations, I have collected some good best practices: do some thorough investigation before moving regarding what is running on those migration objects and preferably do some performance analysis also. After migration from another vendor, do some cleaning of third party software such as VMware tools or raid tools and install the latest VM additions, which can be done automatically." | ||
| --Niklas Akerlund MVP – Hyper-V | ||
By now, you should be aware of all the important best practices of Hyper-V. To take advantage of all these benefits, it's highly recommended to use the latest version of Hyper-V—2012 R2. If you are running any older versions of Hyper-V, it is now time to move on. In this chapter, you will learn about the various tools and methods used for upgrading Hyper-V to 2012 R2.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
Export/import/recreation of VMs
Cross-version Live Migration
Copy Cluster Roles...