Hello everyone,
I have to do a test failover for a File Server which host folder share, and users redirect folders.
Unfortunately in the replication there is no Domain Controller!
I have created virtual network on Azure to failover to it.
So, do you think my test failover is fair without exsitanc of Domain Controller in the virtual network?
Any suggestions or work around?
Thanks,
You would be able to failover the VM but without a DC for authentication you may have sign in issues, DNS issues etc so it depends on exactly what you want to test. Ideally you want to have a DC in Azure that your failover VM can authenticate to but make sure it's not connected to your production environment or you will end up with duplicate hostnames.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-active-directory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-active-directory#test-failover-considerations
Hi @JanNuaman-2253 ,
without authentication and DNS it might be difficult to test the file server test migration.
The easiest way might be replicating and test failover a DC before testing the file server migration.
We did it this way in different Azure Migrate projects without problems.
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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten
Well, I will consider adding a Domain Controller to test.
As I understood from sift of articles, Azure always keep replicating data from on-premises server, I am concerned about what I see in the screen shot there is no records of any delta replication, so is that is normal?
Yes, it does continue to replicate whilst in test failover. If you go back to your replicated items and then click on one of your VMs then you should see that the RPO is continuing to update.
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