Server Rebuild: Onsite
1. Shut down the virtual server
2. Copy virtual drive to two locations on the NAS (I did this twice as a contingency plan, takes a bit longer but worth the time spent)
3. Check and configure the 4 x 600Gb hdd's to RAID 5 (Old array were set to 2 x 600Gb drives that were mirrored, lost about 1 TB drive space)
4. Initialise the RAID 5 HDD array (This process prepares the drives to be used as a RAID5 drive)
5. Install server 2012 - from media and configure server (I used media, just makes it a bit easier)
I created 2 partitions: C; and D: - C; with 300Gb of space to host the Host and D; with 1.3TB to hold the VM
I chose those sizes since the existing VHD had an allocated space of almost 1TB and had to compensate for that.
Host Name -
IPv4 Address - 10.0.0.204
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway - 10.0.0.1
6. Create new VM (HyperV)
Host Name -
IPv4 Address - 10.0.0.10
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway - 10.0.0.1
7. Restore virtual HDD to new virtual server and configure network connections and adapters.
This is the tricky part, once the new virtual server has been created you have to import the old VHD onto the existing server. that's why for contingency I made two backups, just in case the import fails and the VHD gets buggered
The Network adapters has to be configured, The server has 2 in-build NIC's so I assigned 1 to the Host and 1 to the VM
8. Check the backups and make sure they are backing up properly - Shadow protect is the ideal option