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Moving RDS server to Hyper-V - as Warm stand by

Good Afternoon,

I've one RDS 2012 R2 server sitting in my network, as this is getting used more I am concerned about only have one server and it being a single point of failure etc. There are about 30 users connecting to the server but not all at the same time, some user connect using Remote apps and some connect to a share desktop

The server has the RD Gateway installed, one collection which consists of 6 applications.

My main objective is to virtualise the above RDS server, or add a second virtual RDS server to for DR.

So far I've converted the above RDS server a virtual machine, remove it from the domain, renamed it and joined it back to the domain.

I've a message on the newly created virtual server under Remote Desktop Service Overview that displays

"The following servers in this deployment are not part of the server pool:
myserver.co.uk
The servers must be added to the server pool

Thanks in advance
Ian

Philip Elder

There are many single points of failure in an RDS setup.

The simplest thing to do is to make sure the backup of the RDS server is known good. Run a bare-metal test restore on another system.

Otherwise, at least two session hosts, brokers, RD Gateways, and a redundant SQL setup would be required to set up a fully redundant RDS Farm.

FYI: Software Assurance is required for a "cold backup" on the server operating system.

Question: Are User Profile Disks being used?

Ian Price

ASKER

Hi Philip,

Thanks for the comments - what about if I just want to convert the physical server to a virtual server? - Is that just a case of converting turning off physical box and send configuring virtual box with same IP address?

The server is backup so I could try a bare metal restore - I don't think we need a redundant farm

Ian

Philip Elder

Leaving a server offline as a cold backup can cause other issues especially the longer the machine is offline.

Bringing a machine back online is a process. It would be faster to recover using a known good backup, meaning it's been test bare-metal restored, than bringing an offline image of the machine up and cleaning up the networking to get things going.

Ian Price

ASKER

Ok again thank you - but what about if I just want to convert the physical machine to a virtual one?

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Ian Price

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Thank You Philip