Migrate 2003 Server VM to new 2008 VM

[zenking]

This is partly an NTFS question, but I thought someone here may have done this. I need to upgrade from 2003 to 2008. Unfortunately, I can't do an in place upgrade because the 2003 vm is 32 bit and I'm moving to 64 bit, so I have to use MS migration tools. My VM has a C drive and a D drive, and D has all the data. My question is, can I migrate my C drive only and then attach the new 2008 vm to the existing disk I'm using for the D drive? Or is there some compatibility issue between 2003 and 2008 for NTFS?

Thanks.

Tim

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

No problem. NTFS in 2008 is just a minor release and in any case it can read well old 2003 NTFS.

Andre

[idle-jam]

you can mix and match, as long as the disk is not dynamic or software raid you can cross attach as the NTFS are all compatible ..

[zenking]

Thanks to both of you. I thought as much, but I do loves me some verification.

Tim

[idle-jam]

thanks for the points. you might want to enable snapshot just in case the upgrade does not work well you can roll back very fast ..

[zenking]

Yup, snapshots before major change is SOP here, although if the MS migration works like Novell migration, the source server isn't really affected anyway. I'm getting my migration docs together now.