peanuthead
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MM, The Egg has Server 2012 R2 Std (allows 2 VMs per license) for $529.99 at the moment. If you are looking at being stuck going the route of upgrading the HW in the Dell give me a shout. I might be able to help you. I have a similar client running 11+ users off an old HP ML server (single disk) with SBS 2011 from HP. The SBS will ONLY load in the HP (in my case). Been there and done that. I wouldn't use the old server for anything until you peel anyway all of the roles from that server onto new ones. As some have said before don't mess with it until you fully know what they are using and not using. I tried doing a P2V on the HP I mentioned and it corrupted the JET database on the P server while also failing on the V server. That was fun for me to try and get back running correctly.
I pitched the same route you are going for the most part. I pitched Server 2K12 R2 and virtualizing all of their server roles into smaller "containers" (just for manageability). They only use the server for file sharing and IIS. They were going to upgrade to the newest version of their POS software and that required some serious beef (think 64GB RAM at minimum). I was going to backup to a Synology for onsite backups then load a small VM to backup to Crashplan, Carbonite, etc. They are still dragging their feet almost a year later.
Ideally, backups follow a 3-2-1 rule. Three copies of data on two different media types and one is offsite.
I pitched the same route you are going for the most part. I pitched Server 2K12 R2 and virtualizing all of their server roles into smaller "containers" (just for manageability). They only use the server for file sharing and IIS. They were going to upgrade to the newest version of their POS software and that required some serious beef (think 64GB RAM at minimum). I was going to backup to a Synology for onsite backups then load a small VM to backup to Crashplan, Carbonite, etc. They are still dragging their feet almost a year later.
Ideally, backups follow a 3-2-1 rule. Three copies of data on two different media types and one is offsite.