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Migrate to a new Hyper-V Host

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Hi

We need to migrate our VM's off to another HOST. We have the following VMs:

1) Domain Controller
2) Exchange 2016
3) Helpdesk on Win7

We also have a physical second domain controller.

If we:

1) Prepare a new HOST
2) Add the HOST to the Veeam Infrastructure
3) Setup Replication Jobs for the HOST VM's on the gigabit LAN
4) Once in sync, power down the VM' and do a final Sync
5) Failover the VM replicas
6) Test the network and AD replication is ok
7) commit failover to make it permanent

Task complete?

Is there anything I am missing here especially in regards to Active Directory replication with the second physical domain controller
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Re: Migrate to a new Hyper-V Host

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Hi Alan,

First: Welcome to the forums.

Your procedure seems very good to me.

For the domain controller: Have a look at this: https://www.veeam.com/kb1277

For the permanent failover, look here for more information: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

Thanks
Mike
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Re: Migrate to a new Hyper-V Host

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I believe that is the migration completed.

Notes:

I used Planned Failover for each VM individually test as going along.
The DC didn't seem to start up in DSRM and even after a reboot during failover the DC booted normally
I had to assign a vswitch following failover as none was selected
Permanent Failover seemed to do the trick although the new VM names still say _replica in Hyper-V Manager, I assume I can just rename the to the original name in Hyper-V manually?

I have updated the backup job (removing VM's then adding back in from the new host)

Thanks for the confidence check Mike
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Re: Migrate to a new Hyper-V Host

Post by foggy »

Yes, you can rename the VM manually. Btw, original VMs should be automatically put into exclusions list after permanent failover.
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