I'm about to do a knife-edge cutover of our single BES from a physical server to a VM running in our ESX environment. Currently our BES runs its database locally but I'd like to move it to one of our SQL servers. We are not having performance issues and we only have 120 users but I figured moving the DB might make the knife-edge a little easier and also give us room to grow in the future.
In your opinion, in what order should I proceed?
- Move the db off to the SQL server, run from the current BES for a couple weeks THEN do the knife-edge? (this is my current plan)
- Move the db off to the SQL server, then do the knife-edge in the same day/maintenance window
- Do the knife-edge, THEN migrate the db to the SQL server
- Do the knife-edge but leave the db local
Thanks for your thoughts/opinions!