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Moving a Hyper-V cluster to a new AD Domain
Company A and Company B are Merging. Company A has better ICT infrastructure and so will use this environment to help setup a new domain for both company A and company B
Company A - environment
2 x 2012 Hyper-V Manager hosts (5 x VM's on each) attached to HP SAN storage and running failover cluster management.
Idea (very much simplified):
1. Create a new VM DC (and domain) within the current Cluster
2. Import all users into AD from Company A/B
3. move all VM's into new Domain
There are a ton of other things to take note of but I am thinking this solution may not be viable as the both the 2012 hosts are on the Company A domain currently.
Update:
Did some investigating and did find this and looks like could be a better way to proceed but we only have 1 cluster and need to have a new DC (domain) to be running somewhere.
http://namitguy.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/moving-hyper-v-cluster-to-new-ad-domain.html
Just after suggestions from any experts that may have done this in the past.
Company A - environment
2 x 2012 Hyper-V Manager hosts (5 x VM's on each) attached to HP SAN storage and running failover cluster management.
Idea (very much simplified):
1. Create a new VM DC (and domain) within the current Cluster
2. Import all users into AD from Company A/B
3. move all VM's into new Domain
There are a ton of other things to take note of but I am thinking this solution may not be viable as the both the 2012 hosts are on the Company A domain currently.
Update:
Did some investigating and did find this and looks like could be a better way to proceed but we only have 1 cluster and need to have a new DC (domain) to be running somewhere.
http://namitguy.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/moving-hyper-v-cluster-to-new-ad-domain.html
Just after suggestions from any experts that may have done this in the past.
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Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for the feedback, your suggestion sounds like the way to go but time constraints are forcing us to change our plan completely initially for phase 1 and during phase 2 will look to implement what you have suggested and for that reason have awarded your most of the points
Thanks for the feedback, your suggestion sounds like the way to go but time constraints are forcing us to change our plan completely initially for phase 1 and during phase 2 will look to implement what you have suggested and for that reason have awarded your most of the points
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thanks for that, we only have 300GB left in storage on the current cluster so would love to proceed that way as its simple but storage is an issue. Thanks for your input.