Sunday, December 8, 2013

Windows 2012 to 2012R2 In-Place Upgrade (Not recommended) Wipes out Network Teams, vSwitches


Preparing for an in-place upgrade. @ NFL I own the rights to this? :)

Word to the wise: if you plan on doing an in-place upgrade from server 2012 to 2012R2 be prepared to re-create all your OS level network teams. If you upgrade a Hyper-V host and your teams were used for switches, be ready to re-create those as well.


I don't recommend doing an in-place upgrade in the first place for reasons like this, but I figured I'd give it a shot on one of the hosts in my lab. Every OS level network team was wiped out, but easily recreated.


Other than this I haven't found any other in-place upgrade issues... yet, and that's why I'm always hesitant to recommend the practice. It's rare you do find what the issue are until the become a problem.

Any issues you've encountered? Leave 'em below!

1 comment:

DataSupport said...

You should consider a swing migration instead: http://public.madeinengland.co.nz/how-to-do-a-swing-migration-from-sbs-2003-to-2012-with-exchange/