How to transfer Windows 2008 to other hardware?

Question

Windows

There is a server with a Windows 2008 32 bit system, it works as a domain controller, DNS, WSUS, File server, iscsi initiator, just scsi and symantec backup are deployed on it.
There is a need to transfer it to another hardware and 64 bit system. Is it really possible to do this without reinstalling everything from 0?

Answer 1

No.
PS Although ... You can run the image of the old system on a new one, but in a virtual machine))

Answer 2

there is an answer in the question itself, initially we have a 32-bit system, you need to set it to 64 without reinstalling, it even sounds
stupid Raise a new DC on the new hardware, enter it into the domain, raise wsus, specify the old server, it will load everything locally, File server with permissions is possible with clone everything else you need to rearrange
It will be more correct and less glitches

Answer 3

transferring to new hardware is elementary, you can make a full backup with a native utility and deploy it on another hardware, you can drive it into a virtual machine, for example, using vmware converter, you can use other options, such as Acronis.
but jumping from 32 to 64 just won't work, but if the only question is to increase the RAM, then you can upgrade to Enterprise (if the license allows), Enterprise can work with 64GB
, I did this "a hundred times" (: first I transferred from a computer to a virtual machine on ESXi, then to another ESXi and recently again transferred to a computer with RAID1, at the same time updating to Enterprise, began to work with 8GB