Small Business Server 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration and Virtualized Domain Controller Questions
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I do apologize for my ignorance. I just don't think I am ready (at least by tomorrow) to virtualize. Way too many questions remain and are unclear.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you have VMware experience, why go through the extra complication of HyperV?
I'm a Microsoft guy at heart...plus no next to nothing about Linux, should I need to troubleshoot ESXi problems.
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
If you have VMware experience, why go through the extra complication of HyperV?
I'm a Microsoft guy at heart...plus no next to nothing about Linux, should I need to troubleshoot ESXi problems.
Where does Linux come into the equation? VMware has no Linux or Unix and is managed from a very simple client.
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Here is what you do. Throw HyperV onto a box. Load everything else onto it the same as if you were doing physical. Done.
Don't change one thing other than installing HyperV. Nothing.
Does that fix everything or do problems still arise? Other than the RDP confusion, I think that that addresses all concerns.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
How do I remote into my host if it isn't on my domain?
I'm lost here. How do you access it when it is on the domain? I've never had being on the domain make a difference. You are running into an implied obstacle that I can't visualize.
The Host is currently in WORKGROUP, so I cannot RDP into it. I can only access it physically. Though all I've read over the months, it doesn't get joined to the domain, correct?
I'm still confused. How does this block RDP? I can RDP into non-domain machines.
The host is not on my domain, so if I try to remote to it via IP or DNS name, it doesn't connect...it does have a static IP for both virtual switches in our domain range...
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Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
The host has two virtual switches...which one do I make the DNS entry for? Doesn't matter really?
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
That's not a good process. I've done that and it is unnecessarily painful. Instead use DHCP to push out the new IP address as the primary and the old one as the secondary.
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
The host has two virtual switches...which one do I make the DNS entry for? Doesn't matter really?
The one that RDP is listening on
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I think I am going to wait until NEXT Friday. Either I am making this harder than it is or I am constantly encountering more detours and new considerations.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh. You've just forgotten to make its DNS entry, that's all. Not an AD or RDP issue. Just needs normal DNS management.
Done...waiting on replication now. Now that I am thinking of it, most of our workstations have static IP's pointing to the current DNS server (also Domain Controller). After the new domain controller is promoted and the other one demoted, it is safe to change the IP on the new one to the old IP?
That's not a good process. I've done that and it is unnecessarily painful. Instead use DHCP to push out the new IP address as the primary and the old one as the secondary.
IN a sick way, I am OK with manually going to each PC on the night I do this to change the preferred DNS server address...that way, I can catch the PC's not on a static and make them static...it is also another way I can verify the migration worked and all PC's look good.
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You want them to all be static? Why not DHCP?
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Why not run the old system and the new side by side for a few weeks?
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@scottalanmiller said:
You want them to all be static? Why not DHCP?
Again, my weak areas are showing. Networking...I've never configured DHCP.
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Oh. You definitely want to do that. Not hard at all. And will make this kind of stuff much easier.
How many hosts on the network?
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Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
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@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
About 50 workstations...several printers with IP's (not via print server)...SQL Server, two nas's...software firewall...
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
Hosts, as in HyperVisors?
Sorry, I mean devices with IP address. Like desktops, printers, etc.
About 50 workstations...several printers with IP's (not via print server)...SQL Server, two nas's...software firewall...
That is a lot to manage without DHCP but not horrible. Servers and NAS wouldn't be DHCP normally either way.
