As a physical machine running Windows Server used in this example must be converted to a VM running on an ESXi host, VMware Infrastructure virtual machine must be selected in VMware Converter for this step; select the destination server. Step 3: Destination Virtual Machine. Step 4: Destination Location. Select the ESXi host, cluster or resource pool that is connected to the selected Datacenter and select the datastore available on that ESXi host.
There must be enough free space on the selected datastore. If the modern operating system is installed on a source machine, you can select the latest available virtual machine version hardware version for the destination VM.
The virtual machine version that can be selected also depends on a version of the destination ESXi host. Step 5: Options. This step allows you to select the following options for the destination VM:. Data to copy. Select which disks and volumes you want to copy.
You can select thick or thin provisioning type for destination virtual disks you should select advanced view and resize volumes if needed. In this example, a physical disk that contains two volumes is converted to a thin provisioned virtual disk. It is recommended that you tick the checkboxes:. You can select the number of virtual processors, processor cores, virtual disk controllers, and memory size.
Select networks to which virtual network adapters of the VM must be connected. On the Source Services tab, you can select which running services on the source Windows machine to stop before starting P2V conversion with VMware Converter. On the Destination Services tab, you can select the startup mode for services on the destination VM.
Advanced options. There are two tabs — Synchronize and Post-conversion. In the Post-conversion tab, you can set the power state for a source machine and destination machine after P2V conversion is finished.
The Post-conversion processing options are:. Throttling allows you to perform your usual tasks during the conversion process. Step 6: Summary. Check your settings for the new machine conversion job you created and if everything is correct, click Finish to start conversion in VMware Converter. After machine conversion is started, wait until the conversion process is fully completed. The time needed for conversion depends on the amount of data stored on the source machine disks and network speed.
Now that a Windows machine is converted, power on the destination VM if you have not selected to power on the VM automatically during conversion job creation. As you recall, in our example we have selected to install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine automatically. This means that VMware Tools are in the process of being installed. VMware Tools have been installed successfully. It is recommended that you remove all vendor-specific software and drivers used on the physical machine before.
Hence, you can convert a VM, even if a remote physical machine running the hypervisor has Linux or macOS installed as a host operating system. In addition, restoring a DC in authoritative mode can be harmful and cause further damage.
For an authoritative restore with Veeam, see below for some additional steps, which are required. You simply:. Veeam recognizes the DC role of this VM and gently restores it using special logic:. The DC will be aware of the restored from the backup state and start acting accordingly, invalidating the existing database and allowing replication partners to update it with the most recent information. Here you can read about Bare-metal restore of a backup using Veeam Endpoint Backup.
You will need a Veeam recovery media prepared beforehand and the access to the backup file itself USB disk or a network share. This KB article will be helpful here. You would, therefore, want to force DCs to accept changes from a restored DC. To restore a specific deleted object or a subtree ex. Is there anything in the UI that reminds the administrator that is going to happen? If you were to restore the DC without reading a post, you would have noticed that Veeam did everything for you.
Even after reading this post, how do I know that Veeam correctly identified that I am restoring a DC? Performing a non-authoritative restore. Your blog is great. Your thoughts are also very good and i am very inspired from your post. That is why I visit this blog again and again and will come back in future too. Let's say you experienced a disaster scenario. You had domain controllers hosted on Dell server hardware that are no longer accessible.
You need to restore Active Directory to a virtual machine to a volume licensed version of Windows Server Standard not R2. This is the closest to an imaginable scenario I could come up with for what I did. I want to test out server software on a sandbox domain resembling our production environment. I want to learn VMWare we're looking to virtualize, at least partially, for the sake of server consolidation, disaster planning, high availability, and colocation.
Beyond a lab learning environment, I'd never had to recover Active Directory. All that being said, there are better ways to do what I'd done, and I knowingly went against Microsoft recommendations more accurately, I did things Microsoft recommends against doing in at least a couple of places.
Microsoft recommends against seizing roles in favor of transferring them and recommends recovering all your DCs then transferring roles and demoting servers. Microsoft recommends against locating the global catalog on the infrastructure master server I am only in a single domain forest though. This server was not connected to the production network only an internal virtual network.
Side note: Doing nothing else, if I rebooted, Windows Server would not start reliably I think it started once The hardware was too different. The HAL and kernel were for a multiprocessor system, the virtual server was a single processor. I could get it to boot by replacing hal.
On Windows Server or R2, I may have been able to work around this but I couldn't figure it out on Windows Server seen mention registry locations, wpa.
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