Exchange 2010 + Converting into VM
I have 2 multi role Exchange servers in a DAG (VM + Physical), a load balancer (2 instances in LVS). I need to convert the physical server into VM.
1. Make “Switchover server” or “Move active database” to move DBs to another server from console or via powershell.
2. Check that DBs don’t have sync queues.
3. Stop all the Exchange services except “Form Based Authentication” – it’s a load balancer’s feature 🙂 – didn’t solve this yet. Run this to stop activation policy:
Set-MailboxServer Server1 -DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy Blocked
4. Run script for DAG:
cd $exscripts
.\StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 -serverName Server1
5. Make a full backup of server.
6. Install Vmware standalone converter on the Exchange server.
7. Convert the server into VM.
8. Configure this VM: Delete unused devices from the configuration and so on.
9. Run the VM and install Vmware Tools.
10. Configure network interfaces.
11. Run the next commands (from my previous post about load balancing):
netsh interface ipv4 set interface “Local Area Network” weakhostreceive=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface “Loopback” weakhostreceive=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface “Loopback” weakhostsend=enabled
12. Check that all the services are running, reboot the server if needed.
13. Run script for DAG:
cd $exscripts
.\StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1 -serverName Server1
14. Allow Activation policy:
Set-MailboxServer Server1 -DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy Unrestricted
15. Check that replication queues become 0.
Done.
P.S.: I got the error for Storage when check the services:
Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service because the clocks on the client and on the server machine are skewed
Solved this with the command:
Net time \\MyDomainController /Set
Links:
Avrdude + burning an empty ATMEGA328P-PU + Usbasp VoIP codecs traffic rate
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