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Storage Mirroring Data Migration requirements Page 8 of 135
enabled. (Hyper-V Server 2008 and Server Core 2008 are not
supported.)
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If you are using Hyper-V Integration Services and your source is
running Windows 2003, the source must have Service Pack 2 or later.
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The virtual machines cannot use raw, pass-through, or differencing
disks.
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Provisioned virtual machine on ESX—If your recovery server will be
provisioned (automatically created during the migration process), you must
have a physical ESX host machine where Storage Mirroring Data Migration
can create the new virtual server. Provisioning a virtual machine on ESX also
includes the following requirements. Note that ESX is commonly referred to
as the Classic edition and ESXi as the Embedded and Installable edition.
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ESX 3.5.x or ESXi 3.5.x Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, or Enterprise
Plus
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ESX 4.0.x or 4.1 or ESXi 4.0.x or 4.1 Standard, Advanced, Enterprise,
or Enterprise Plus
Note: If you are using the Standard edition of ESX 4.0 or ESXi 4.0, you
must have update 1 or later.
If your source is a Windows 2008 R2 server, your ESX server
must have version 3.5 update 5 or later or ESX 4.0 update 1 or
later.
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VirtualCenter—Although VirtualCenter is not required for the ESX
versions, if you are using it, then you must use version 2.5 or later.
Note: VMotion is only supported if you are using VirtualCenter.
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Virtual recovery appliance—The ESX server must have an existing
virtual machine, known as a virtual recovery appliance, that meets the
following requirements. (The virtual recovery appliance will create a
new virtual server, mount disks, format disks, and so on. Then the new
virtual machine is detached from the virtual recovery appliance and
powered on. Once the new virtual machine is online, it will have the
identity, data, and system state of the original source. Since the virtual