In a week I plan to convert a physical Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS2008) to a virtual machine. Hyper-V with one guest is installed on this SBS2008 machine and its also the primary Backup Excec 2014 server.
The plan is to install Hyper-V Core 2012 R2 to the physical machine and run the SBS2008 server and the other guest on Hyper-V Core to take advantage of the ram thats installed on this server. The server has 60GB ram installed. Windows Small Business Server limits Ram to 32GB. Hyper-V Core has a 1TB Ram limit.
The problem im running into is this is the only Hyper-V machine on the network and the Convert to Virtual option in Backup Excec 2014 is greyed out so I cannot use Backup Exec 2014 to convert this SBS2008 machine to a virtual.
I have a daily backup that the Simplified Disaster Recovery is not enabled on so when I called Symantec they said I needed to complete a one time backup with it enabled to activate the convert to virtual. This didnt make alot of sense as the option to backup and convert to virtual was disabled but I did it anyways and after the one time bakcup completed with SDR green I still cannot convert to virtual.
Does anyone have any suggestions?