Possible to convert server to vitural machine and then transfer to another box?

Question

I was researching Hyper-V and virtual desktops. I was wondering if I could take a normal windows server desktop with all the applications and convert it to a virtual desktop or virtual desktop file and then migrate it to a different box running the same version of windows.

I am using windows server 2012 R2

Answer 1

Here is a doc about How to Convert a Physical Machine to Hyper-V VM using MVMC/ Disk2VHD, also including some Possible Issues of P2V.
MVMC can convert the entire physical machine or VMware virtual machine including all disks to a Hyper-V VM.
Disk2VHD can convert physical disks to virtual disks, but cannot convert the entire virtual machine.
You can follow the guide and have a try:
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/convert-physical-machine-hyper-v-vm/

Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Mico Mi

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Answer 2

The cleaner safer method is to stand up a new one from installation media, patch fully, migrate roles or applications over to it. Another option is some method of P2V
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

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