Hello, I am planning to V2V (as part of the datacentre migration) a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller (DC) to new datacentre. As it’s not best practice to convert/ clone domain controller, I am stopping all AD related services and doing the V2V conversion. When V2V finishes, I power on target VM, connect the network and start the services. We have other live domain controllers in the network.
As I am stopping the AD services, I am assuming that server is down from AD point of view. Is it right assumption?
Do you see any issues? Appreciate your thoughts on this.
I can’t use cold clone. OVF method or parallel DC build and migrate roles for some other reasons. I have no access to source vCenter server.
Cheers!!