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.<\/p>\n
1. Make “Switchover server” or “Move active database” to move DBs to another server from console or via powershell.<\/p>\n
2. Check that DBs don’t have sync queues.<\/p>\n
3. Stop all the Exchange services except “Form Based Authentication” – it’s a load balancer’s feature \ud83d\ude42 – didn’t solve this yet. Run this to stop activation policy:<\/p>\n
Set-MailboxServer Server1 -DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy Blocked<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
4. Run script for DAG:<\/p>\n
cd $exscripts<\/p>\n
.\\StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 -serverName Server1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
5. Make a full backup of server.<\/p>\n
6. Install Vmware standalone converter on the Exchange server.<\/p>\n
7. Convert the server into VM.<\/p>\n
8. Configure this VM: Delete unused devices from the configuration and so on.<\/p>\n
9. Run the VM and install Vmware Tools.<\/p>\n
10. Configure network interfaces.<\/p>\n
11. Run the next commands (from my previous post about load balancing):<\/p>\n
netsh interface ipv4 set interface \u201cLocal Area Network\u201d weakhostreceive=enabled<\/p>\n
netsh interface ipv4 set interface \u201cLoopback\u201d weakhostreceive=enabled<\/p>\n
netsh interface ipv4 set interface \u201cLoopback\u201d weakhostsend=enabled<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
12. Check that all the services are running, reboot the server if needed.<\/p>\n
13. Run script for DAG:<\/p>\n
cd $exscripts<\/p>\n
.\\StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1 -serverName Server1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
14. Allow Activation policy:<\/p>\n
Set-MailboxServer Server1 -DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy Unrestricted<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
15. Check that replication queues become 0.<\/p>\n
Done.<\/p>\n
P.S.: I got the error for Storage when check the services:<\/p>\n
Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service because the clocks on the client and on the server machine are skewed<\/pre>\nSolved this with the command:<\/p>\n
Net time \\\\MyDomainController \/Set<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Links:<\/p>\n