Hello,
I currently have 2012 R2 deployed with the Essentials role installed and configured. The server it is deployed on is coming up on end of life, with a new server on its way. What are my options in terms of migrating from the old hardware to new? Any guidance
available on this? I think I see the following choices:
- Just move the hard drives to the new box and pray to the PnP gods
- Install new server in migration mode, deploy and reconfigure various features to suite
-- Would be resource intensive, and require a change to data paths (as it would be a new machine name)
- Stage a temporary swing server for identity data, promo down existing server and remove from environment, promo up new server
-- Install/reconfigure functionality as required
-- Could keep existing name/IP address
-- Restore from backup could be a tangent to this, though I'm not 100% on how well the restore would work.
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim