If the DC already has roles and is configured for the environment, it may be more work to bring up a new one and move all the roles than just p2v the existing one. If it is a CA you should retain it if at all possible, for example. We are getting ready to p2v our DCs as well. (The physical environment is shrinking and the VM world is growing.) So my only question/issue is changing the IP address on the DC, since by going to a VM it puts the server in a new subnet. I expect everything else to stay the same. I haven't seen any articles from MS that seem to make changing the IP address any more difficult than changing it on a member server.
Wayne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V a DC A cold clone would be preferable to a regular P2V. Why not just build a VM, DC promo to domain controller and let replication work naturally? No risk of corruption. Original Message: ----------------- From: Kelsay, Mark [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:16:19 -0000 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: P2V a DC Doing a cold clone, you boot using a CD and it opens a pre-installation environment and launches the P2V software. It clones the server to a VM and then you just boot the VM. Leave the physical box off. Make sure all is well and your dancing. Not had a problem doing it this way. From: Harry Singh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 November 2009 15:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: P2V a DC When P2V'ing a DC -- what steps to do you take once the clone is up and running to prevent any authentication crashes or issues in general ? Obviously there has to be a computer name change, IP change. Newsid ? Anything in the AD that needs to be ran/re-ran to pick up the cloned DC's ? On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kelsay, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: I have done 30 or so DC P2V and when doing a cold clone I have not had one issue. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 November 2009 14:48 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V a DC Don't do it. Create a VM and promote to a DC and then transfer roles if you wish. Others have had problems with AD database after P2V of DC. Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: John Aldrich [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:18:19 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: P2V a DC I'm thinking of trying to do a P2V on one of our DCs for D/R purposes. If I get the "cheap" version of VMWare, can I do that, or do I need to get the "enterprise" class of VMWare. Any other virtualization software that would work (well) and not be super-expensive to P2V our Win2K3 DC? 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