can someone answer this question

Microsoft Server 2003 needs to be upgraded to Microsoft Server 2008 or 2012 

through virtual Server hosting environment. Also, assume that one of the servers has 

the main website of your company and the other server has all the Databases. The 

website has many applications, which are connected to the databases, which requires 

clients or administrators to login and put in requests to check-in and check-out products 

from the company. What are the steps that you will take such that, there is no data loss 

and the upgradation process is successful. (Note that it is not an ordinary upgradation. 

It requires SQL backup of all the Databases.)

The only sure fire method would be to stand up the new guest OS virtual machines, install the roles / applications, and finally migrate the web services over.

 

 

 

Thanks Dave for reply. Can you suggest me some documents to read to understand how to do this ore ?

These ones may help.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh831620.aspx

http://forums.iis.net/t/1201260.aspx?Migrating+IIS+6+to+IIS+8

 I'd ask more about the web services migration over here.

http://forums.iis.net/

 They can help you over here with the database engine installation / backup / restore.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home?category=sqlserver