Friends, I have a virtual machine running on standalone hypervisor operating system is 2k8r2 . Hardware of the server on which this VM is running is completely outdated. This VM host file Server means thousands of shares folder and bulk no. of permissions. Now I need to migrate this file server to new hardware and demanding OS is windows 2012R2. Can we use this approach to simply copy the Virtual Hard disk from 2K8R2 VM and attach to 2K12R2 VM. Is it possible, if yes how much it's safe from data perspective, no issue with shared folders and ACL's.
What is your approach to achieve this task with zero loss? Please suggest.