I have a dental office that had a server and ~10 systems deployed. One of the things I fear most is walking in and my server has crashed. That can mean anything from 1-3 days of downtime and that is assuming that my nightly and offline backups are valid.
What I am thinking of doing is adding a disk2vhd script to my nightly backup sessions that will create a virtual snapshot of my server.
The question is:
– Can I then boot to that server on another Win7 pro machine and use it just like my server was still functioning.
– If not, why not and what would I need to do to get it running.
– What would be the limitations of the server in that system assuming it will run and function.
– Would I have to touch all of the systems to get them configured?
The current virtual machine solutions are pretty cost prohibitive. I would like to think I have some chance of success before beginning to experiment.
Thank you…