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Moving a single Domain Controller VM to another Hyper-V Server

Noah 21 Reputation points
2021-11-05T17:12:42.133+00:00

Hello I have a lone virtualized Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller, on Hyper-V 2016, and I want to move it to another server running Hyper-V 2019. What would the safest way to do this? Is it okay just to shut off the VM and move it to the other Hyper-V server? Setup Hyper-V replica? I also have it backed up with Veeam with application-aware processing enabled, so I could possibly restore it to the new server.

Thank you for any help.

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.3K Reputation points MVP
    2021-11-05T17:29:15.67+00:00

    Yes, you could export from hypervisor A and import to hypervisor B but the much cleaner / safer method is to stand up a new one on destination hypervisor.

    I'd use dcdiag / repadmin tools to verify health correcting all errors found before starting any operations. Then stand up the new 2016, patch it fully, license it, join existing domain, add active directory domain services, promote it also making it a GC (recommended), transfer FSMO roles over (optional), transfer pdc emulator role (optional), use dcdiag / repadmin tools to again verify health, when all is good you can decommission / demote old one.

    --please don't forget to upvote and Accept as answer if the reply is helpful--

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