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SCVMM 2008 and P2V

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 06/18/2009
From: Elvis
Message:

Hi,

I am working at a medium sized company and I have a single forest and a few
domains, and would like to recreate my entire production AD infrastrucutre
Windows 2008 DC with some Windows 2003 DC into a virtual environment using
Hyper - V and VMM 2008 for testing purposes (P2V). Please not that there will
be no connectivity of the production environment to the Virtual Environment.
I am looking at cloning production into a Virtual environment and using the
virtual only for test purposes so it needs to be exact.
I have some questions:
1) it is not recommended to live/online clone a DC due to USN rollback
issues but the cloned DC will never speak to production. will I still have
issues and is it still best practice to always clone DC offline/cold?
2)To make an exact replica of production which Domain Controllers should I
start P2V first the FSMO holders or the additional DC's?
3) I see lots of articles on how to convert your environment from P2V but
not too many that speak about cloning your environment on two seperate
networks for testing. Any articles that you can provide on this process?

Thanks in advance for any support for feedback.

Thanks

Elvis

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Re: SCVMM 2008 and P2V

Sent: 06/21/2009
From: "Augusto Alvarez" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Hello Elvis,

To answer your questions:

1) No, you won't have issues if your DC is migrated in offline and
recommended mode. Only remember that those two cloned DCs should never be
online on the same network.
2) It is not recommended to have an active domain that has some or all FSMO
roles offline. So my recommendation to you is to try to migrate all DCs in a
short period of time to avoid problems. But if you still need a migration
order I would say the 1st PDC, 2nd Infraestructure master, 3rd RID, 4th
Domain naming master, 5th Schema Master. And be sure that the first one is a
Global Catalog as well.
3) I have no documentation available about duplicating environments for
testing, I think there is no much to say, only what I mentioned about taking
care of not having duplicate machines on the same network.

Hope it helps

Cheers!

--
augusto alvarez | it consultant
MSP - MCTS - MCITP DBA
http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/

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Show quoted text

> Hi,
>
> I am working at a medium sized company and I have a single forest and a
> few
> domains, and would like to recreate my entire production AD infrastrucutre
> Windows 2008 DC with some Windows 2003 DC into a virtual environment using
> Hyper - V and VMM 2008 for testing purposes (P2V). Please not that there
> will
> be no connectivity of the production environment to the Virtual
> Environment.
> I am looking at cloning production into a Virtual environment and using
> the
> virtual only for test purposes so it needs to be exact.
> I have some questions:
> 1) it is not recommended to live/online clone a DC due to USN rollback
> issues but the cloned DC will never speak to production. will I still have
> issues and is it still best practice to always clone DC offline/cold?
> 2)To make an exact replica of production which Domain Controllers should I
> start P2V first the FSMO holders or the additional DC's?
> 3) I see lots of articles on how to convert your environment from P2V but
> not too many that speak about cloning your environment on two seperate
> networks for testing. Any articles that you can provide on this process?
>
> Thanks in advance for any support for feedback.
>
> Thanks
>
> Elvis

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