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michaelbuttitta
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 Posted - 06/21/2012 : 6:28:35 PM
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I've been contemplating this chicken & Egg scenario... I have one physical server box - a nice 32GB RAM/ Dual 8 core AMD setup with 4 TB of drives. Obviously, I'd like to set this up with Hyper-V server on bare metal, and then setup a good 6-8 VM's to create a full domain of servers with 2 Win2012 domain controllers, a SQL 2012 Server, IIS Web Servers, System Center, etc.
The obvious question is how do you set up/add the Hyper-V server to the domain when one isn't there already? I see the main issue to this is when you have to shut down all the VM's when Hyper-V needs to re-boot but then there is no domain available when it boots up?
Anyone know of a good resource that discusses this? I'm assuming the core process of this for 2012 server would be the same as 2008 R2 Server?
Worst case, I could run a VM DC on my workstation or my laptop so it's outside the Hyper-V hardware but I'd really like this to be self contained?
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wkasdo
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Posted - 06/22/2012 : 02:34:39 AM
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Welcome to the forum, Michael!
> to re-boot but then there is no domain available when it boots up?
No great loss. The main thing missing (AFAIK) are startup scripts. I've been running this config for years.
> 2 Win2012 domain controllers
Just one, right? What whould be the point of two DC's on a single physical box? Oh, uptime during patch cycles or something?
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Pesos
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Posted - 06/23/2012 : 02:02:39 AM
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Patching uptime, or redundancy in case of user error perhaps ;-)
I have on a couple of occasions used one of these as a second hyper-v server - nothing special but works great to just virtualize a second dc on :-) http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+zino |
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Rastor728
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Posted - 06/23/2012 : 11:38:05 PM
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| Isn't one of the positives of W2012 that the HyperV Host (physical) can maintain the Domain connections and data if your DC's are both physical guests? |
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Pesos
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Posted - 06/24/2012 : 02:06:18 AM
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Rastor728
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Posted - 06/25/2012 : 10:20:05 PM
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Virtualisation Aware Domain Controllers Windows Server 2012 domain controllers are aware if they are Windows 8 Hyper-V VMs. This prevents USN rollback (VM restore or snapshot application) and enables you to clone DCs by copying VMs, using a feature called VM-Generation ID (GenID).
Cluster Bootstrapping A Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster does not require a physical domain controller to be present. This allows DCs to be virtualised for SMEs and branch offices.
The rest of the features are summarized on Aiden Finn's site
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=11979
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Domain on a single physical machine running HyperV
