Hi,

In my environment two exchange servers existing in DAG

Both servers mailbox & CAS role running with exchange 2013.

One exchange server running in physical hardware and another one is running in virtual.

We have planned to covert physical exchange server to virtual(Hyper-V) with same Hostname and IP Address.

Normally follows below procedure.

1. P2V for exchange (Not recommended Microsoft)
2. Build new server and install, configure exchange.

My query is

I have planned to shutdown existing physical exchange server and remove from network.

Then plan to build new server OS with same configuration and Recover an Exchange Server with following command.

Setup /m:RecoverServer /IacceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

For exchange server recover please refer the below URL.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876880(v=exchg.150).aspx

Anyone please advise for this procedure will help us.

Regards,

Kumar N

 

• Moved by Jason Johnston [MSFT]Microsoft employee 17 hours 27 minutes ago Not a development question.

Of course it works.

Hi LI,

Thanks for your Advise. What am I asking is above scenarios will work or not.

That is My exchange server is not disaster,down or corrupted but I am assuming like that and shutdown physical server and removed from network. then recovering exchange server.

Why am I asking existing exchange server is physical server but I am going recover in Virtual environment.

Is it work or not.

Regards,

Kumar N

• Edited by Kumar Nasam Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5:24 AM

Hi Kumar,

Rather than shutting down and removing from the network, take it down gracefully. remove databases and uninstall Exchange. Then remove it from the domain and turn it off. That way you will have a clean Exchange config.

Otherwise you will have "this server name" lingering in the config within Exchange.

Why not stand up a new server with the same version of Windows (i.e. if current server is Windows Server 2012R2 make the VM Server 2012R2) add it to the DAG, add database copies to the new serrver and once everything is replicated retire the physical server (Uninstall Exchange via Add/remove programs).

You can go the recover server route also, but i hate just turning off physical machines.  People seem to have a tendency to turn those back and reconnect them to the network. I havent seen anyone do that with an Exchange Server, but I can only imagine that it would make something reallly unhappy. 

Hi Hinte,

Thanks for your inputs.

Regards,

Kumar N

Hello

for dag member recover:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638206(v=exchg.150).aspx