Making The Jump...Physical to Virtual

Hello my fellow Spiceworks Avengers,I am seeking your help in figuring out my move to the virtual world (better late than never) for one of my clients.I currently have a Lenovo Thinkserver TS140, which is a small business server and Windows Server 2012 R2 running directly on the bare metal. This was done before I knew much about virtualization, and now I look back and I wish I can smack myself across the head for not going virtual then...The server is running Active Directory/DNS and is our only Domain Controller, hosting our QuickBooks data file, and is acting as a File Server. Please don't judge me too harshly as I will be immediately changing this configuration once I go completely virtual (E.g. adding multiple VM's for each role).The TS140 has an LSI MegaRAID 9266-4i http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118173...
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