Instant Recover to Exchange 2010 server

[hasayeretFMG]

Good afternoon Veeamers

Question for you all: We are planning to move our Exchange 2010 server from one vCenter to another.
The server is currently sitting on an NFS NAS device so doing the move using VMware's vMotion is not an option since it'll take too long.
The only option we really have is to Instant Recovery from a backup and then do a full migration.
Are there any steps or anything in particular I need to know before doing something like or is it going to be like every server move?

Thanks!!!

[foggy]

Haven't you thought of replicating the server and then using planned failover for fast and seamless switch to the replica?

[hasayeretFMG]

I actually have not! Can you shed some light please and give some details on how-to?
Right now we have backups only

[veremin]

Add both vCenter servers to a backup console, configure replication job (from old vCenter to new one), let the replication job finish its initial cycle and perform planned failover. Thanks.

[hasayeretFMG]

Now as far as the planned failover, what would it do to the source server? I'd like to keep it offline in case I need to go back to it and I'd like the new server to get the same IP address as the old one

[veremin]

Nothing special, it will be replicated twice (once in powered on state, and once in powered off state) and turned off. More detailed information can be found in the link Foggy's provided. Thanks.

[hasayeretFMG]

Thanks guys!
So I've created a replication and was able to permanently fail over to it but the source server is still turned on with the original IP address. The replica is also turned on with the same address. Do I manually turn the source off?

[veremin]

Instead of permanent failover you should have used planned failover. Anyway, since you've switched workloads to the replica VM already, you can simply power off source VM. Thanks.