Accessing Windows 2008 File Service Cluster with Windows 2012R2 File Services Cluster using same SAN

I am in the process on converting my existing Windows 2008 host servers (2 host cluster) to a Windows 2012 R2 (2 host cluster).
All 4 servers will be accessing the same SAN via ISCSI.
Currently the Windows 2008 host servers are running both File server roles and Hyper-V in clustered environment.
How can I transfer the File Server roles from 2008 to 2012R2 will still keeping access to the same SAN and LUNS?
Thanks
--Steven B.

You would have a short outage, but all it takes is to set up the 2012R2 cluster with the appropriate roles. Then remove the LUNs from the 2008 cluster and present them to 2012R2 cluster. You could initially build the 2012R2 cluster with just
its witness disk sitting on the iSCSI SAN, then move the other LUNs over at your leisure.
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>>> MS
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