Upgrading Hyper-V Server 2008R2 Cluster to 2012R2

I have a Hyper-V Server 2008R2 (free 'core' version) cluster that I would like to upgrade to Hyper-V Server 2012R2 (same 'core' version). I found
this document that seems to outline the process, however I have the following questions...
Any reason this process won't work on the "core" version of Hyper-V. i.e. "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008R2". I currently have a 2-node 2008R2 HA cluster with "core" servers and am looking to migrate that cluster
to the "core" version of 2012R2.
Is there no way to do this "in place", meaning without a dedicated target server? It seems like the process assumes you just have extra servers sitting around that can act as targets. I suppose I could shuffle VMs off one cluster node,
evict that node from my current cluster, rebuild it with 2012R2 core, add it to a new cluster as the only node and carry on with the process outlined here? Once all VMs are on the new "cluster" of one 2012R2 node, I would destroy the original
cluster, rebuild those machines with 2012R2 and add them as nodes to the new cluster?
Any reason the "Failover Cluster Manager" tool, version 6.1, I've been using to manage my 2008R2 environment won't work to do the migration? Or are there new 2012 tools I need to have installed on my workstation. Remember, since this
is the "core" version I can't manage anything from the server.
Thanks,
Todd

Here's an update on what happened...
The first VM that failed turned out had 1 snapshot, which I know is a no no, but I generally never snapshot servers so it didn't even occur to me to check. So that's why the migrated VM wouldn't boot. When I recreated the VM manually and pointed
to the VHD file it obviously didn't include the AVHD content so it booted the server into a 2 month old state. That led to the domain problems since the AD server account password had changed sometime in the last 2 months. I tried a bunch of fixes
but the only thing that finally worked was to remove the server from the domain and re-join. Of course, that then broke Citrix, but that's getting off-topic.
The second VM that failed was because for some reason a CSV that it relied on was not migrated over and I didn't notice that in that in the report. And then I couldn't find any way to bring that CSV in after the fact. I re-ran the pre-migration
and it still didn't show it. Of course this is my biggest volume at 800GB. So I then re-mapped one of my old cluster nodes back to the LUN (after removing the new node), brought up the lost CSV, copied the VHD file on it to external media, brought
the old cluster down again, the new one up and was going to blow away that LUN and create it as a new CSV on the new cluster. Of course, when I went to go create the CSV it showed my LUN available for storage and I just had to add it and all the data
was brought with it. So 2 hours of copying for nothing! I'm not at all sure what happened with this problem, but it seems either rebooting the old cluster node or the new one jarred things lose.
Just wanted to report back saying everything is going again. And also to vent about how poor and riddled with pitfalls this migration is. The snapshot issue is ridiculous, how hard would it be for the tool to check for that and then throw an
error in the migration report?
For anyone that needs to upgrade from 2008 to 2012, good luck!

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