That's fine. Remember, Hyper-V is a type-1 hypervisor. IT doesn't care how you log in to the root partition. IT doesn't care about domains. IT doesn't care about authentication credentials.
So.... If you are recovering from a datacenter shutdown, first power-on the Hyper-V server hosting a VM that holds your forest-root PDC FSMO role. This VM server really needs to be a GC and host DNS. This VM server needs to refer to itself as either primary or secondary for DNS. Sign on to that Hyper-V server using a LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE USER ACCOUNT. Start the VM. After it's running, log out of the Hyper-V server and log back in using a domain account. Start your other DCs/GCs, I'd recommend one-by-one, but depending on your environment size, that may not be practical. After you have at least one DC/GC running in each AD site, you can begin starting your other servers, based on your recovery requirements (me, I start all DCs, followed by Exchange, followed by SQL, followed by file servers, followed by anything else that is left). Alternately - have your forest root PDC (and a GC!) on a physical server. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... "However, there are ways to handle this" Such as? My plan is to migrate from ESX3.5 to Hyper-V and I *planned* on joining the hosts to the virualized domain. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... IMHO - the only issue is that you need to have more than one DC and they need to be hosted on more than one physical server. THE MAJOR CHALLENGE is that, in the case of a "datacenter reboot" or "datacenter shutdown" followed by a "datacenter power-up", restoring service can be a bit challenging. However, there are ways to handle this. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [Microsoft support] Is it me... That was why I never made a Hyper-V host a member of any domain if it would host a DC. Just plain bad news. Jon On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ..or is there no 24x7 pay per incident number for support on Microsoft Servers? I keep getting to this page (2008 R2) and choosing "Virtualization" and "Other" I get support times of 6a-6pm. https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?st=1&as=1&iid=1059&iguid=d535992c-b4dd-49a7-b4a8-2b14e5649525_1_1&x=10&y=17&c1=508&sd=gn&c=SMC&ln=en-us&prid=13020&gsaid=582847 I had a situation the other night where I thought I was going to have to call them because I uh...have a Hyper-V host that's a domain member and it was requiring connection to a DC to start a guest VM, and the guest VM was the DC it needed to talk to! Invoking some DR steps I got back in business, but still...do you need to have some kind of support contract to have them available 24x7? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229<tel:503.548.5229> // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764<tel:503.267.9764> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
