Hi
I have a physical Win 2012 R2 DC, which also runs DNS, DHCP and Printing services.
I am planning to virtualise it using the following method, and am wondering if anyone else has gone through the same process? From the research I have done this should work, and I'm currently in the process of confirming in my lab.
1) Disconnect DC from network
2) Boot DC in to DSRM
3) Run disk2vhd
4) Untick 'use VSS' (doesn't work in DSRM mode)
5) Copy VHD to Hyper-V host
6) Shut down DC
7) Create new VM on Hyper-V host and attach VHD
8) Boot VM and check event viewer, replication with other DCs etc.
I know it's best practice to simply create a new DC and allow it to replicate, and migrate DNS and DHCP, but this server hosts a lot of printers and it would be a huge amount of work to re-point all the clients and applications that point to this DC currently.
Just looking for some feedback/opinions.
Cheers