Is it possible to painlessly transfer windows server from a virtual machine to hardware?

Question

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There is an idea to change the old server to a new one, but there are a lot of all sorts of useful things spinning there (network licensing, access control, video surveillance, etc.) that you don’t want to interrupt for a long time.
I thought that if I create a virtual machine, configure everything necessary there, and then ... and then what? How can this whole thing be transferred, deployed on hardware? Or are there any special tools for this?
Help with thoughts, kind people :)

Answer 1

You don't have to suffer like this. We made a virtual machine, backed it up and work in a virtual machine.

Answer 2

Windows has a built- in sysprep utility out of the box, you apparently don’t need it at all, this utility already built into Windows for a long time is capable of making a boot image from any Windows with all software, with all running programs, everything related to drivers will be spit out when you will boot from this image, you will be asked to select a partition, language, everything is as usual, but after you install Windows, you will find all your software and all system updates (there will be your own assembly of Windows Server or Windows 7 8 10) PS this still exists from the advent Windows 2000

Answer 3

Armenian Radio +1
It booted from a live disk in Linux, corrected fstab, in extreme cases recompiled the kernel (if custom) and away we go. In Windows, then the hal is not the same, then the chipset is not the same, then the disk controller is not the same, then just "I don't want to" ...

Answer 4

Will there be a performance drop in the virtual machine? After all, launching another OS requires a certain amount of resources. I say this because now there is really not enough processor resources, the load is constantly about 80-90% on the macroscop server (recording 15 IP cameras with video analytics). I plan to buy something on XEON'e E3 or E5 so that with a margin

Answer 5

Everything is possible. Another question is how justified the implementation costs will be. Why do you need to leave the virtual machine for hardware? If there are no specific requirements from applications, the virtual machine is more flexible in terms of maintenance, and you can pull it in the form of a banal image and mount / migrate without problems on another host.
To get acquainted with the nuances of transferring, for example, from VMWare to physics, you can look here, I think it will convince you to refuse to transfer back to hardware:
https://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/