Hi,
May sound like a really simple question, but I can't afford to get it wrong.
We have Windows 2003 R2 servers, which are file servers, with 100 users connected, who rely on these servers to be up during work hours. They are critical machines, and we can't really afford ANY downtime, a few seconds is fine as long as nobody notices, and that any open files that people are working on do not get lost.
Because the server has upto 1TB of data on it, we can't really estimate how long it will take to do the P2V. So we'd ideally like to start this in a morning, then perhaps do the switchover at the end of our working day, so as to not upset any of our users.
Can we do this? Can we do a P2V, and then re-run the process to find any changes that may of happened between it finishing the 1st run?
Basically, we can't really sit and watch it run all the way through, then make the switch when it's finished, because we have no way of knowing if it will finish outside working hours or not, and obviously we can't wait all night either!
We have at least 4 servers to do like this, any ideas really appreciated.
Many thanks, Alan