dears,
i have an azure site recovery deployment for 2 hyperv vms: one sql and one iis server and they are based on ad authentication.
on azure, i created a second dc in case of a failover.
now i want to do the test failover on a separate vnet, so for this reason i want to replicate the exact configuration that i have on prem: iis and sql and one dc.
thats why i will replicate a dc and both vms on a separate vnet for the test failover in order not to impact the prod.
my questions are for the dc behavior:
the dc that needs to be replicated shoud it be the holder of FSMO or there is no need?
When you initiate a test failover, don't include all the domain controllers in the test network. To remove references to other domain controllers that exist in your production environment, you might need to seize FSMO Active Directory roles and do metadata cleanup for missing domain controllers.?
can u advise on point 2 also? i have many dcs on premises but i will just replicate one for the testing. what does it mean remove references to other dcs if i wont replicate remaning dcs? and noting that there wont be communcation between all dcs because there isnt a site to site vpn connection between both sites.
thank you in advance