> > *My suggestion is not to replicate any of your DCs with vmWare and just > stand up additional VMs in the remote site.*
^ Quoted for emphasis. Regards, *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* * GPG: *1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > *Essentially you’re circumventing AD’s replication engine with something > that isn’t going to enforce consistency which has the potential to turn out > very poorly.* > > > > *Newer (Windows Server 2012++) DCs, on uplevel versions of vmWare should > realize they come up on a new host and handle many (but not all) possible > scenarios where this could break AD replication.* > > > > *My suggestion is not to replicate any of your DCs with vmWare and just > stand up additional VMs in the remote site. * > > > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > > > *w – 312.625.1438 <312.625.1438> | c – 312.731.3132 <312.731.3132>* > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Charles F Sullivan > *Sent:* Friday, February 5, 2016 12:42 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Replicating AD VMs > > > > Is there any reason I should be afraid to use VMware replication to make > copies of our DCs in the event of a data center-wide disaster? > > > > We have 5 DCs, all VMs, in a Windows 2012 R2 Forest/Domain functional AD. > We have one forest, one domain. One of these DCs is running at a backup > site about a mile away. I would like to use VMware Replication to keep > copies of the other four DCs at the same location. > > > > The replication would be set with an RPO of 15 minutes. In a disaster > scenario for our data center, the DC at the other site would be the only > one standing, but I would bring up the replicated DCs, one at a time, > starting with the PDCe. The only other thing I would need would be to > confirm that the IP configuration holds or set it correctly if needed. > > > > Everything else is taken care of, such as physical network, DNS, etc. We > already know we can recovery services such as this at the other site > because we have tested it. Also, VMware replication would not be used as a > replacement for backups, and we have other AD DR plans which have been > tested using conventional backups. I simply want to know, from an AD > perspective if this is a bad idea. The platform is irrelevant. We could > just as well be using Hyper-V, but I will also check on the VMware Forums > in case there’s something I should know related to VMware’s solution. > > > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. >
