How to restore physical DC to virtual machine to test DR plan?

[Admiral208]

Hi guys,

 

I need to test the DR plan. I want to restore our first DC, which is a 2008r2 physical box, using backupexec 2010 to a hyper-v 2012 virtual machine that I have set up.

 

Has anyone done this before?

Would this even work as I am restoring to different hardware?

If its possible, how can I keep the restored DC away from the production network?

Can I connect the backupexec box to directly to the hyper-v box and restore without it being connected to the rest of the network?

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

 

James

[fiza]

I would be careful converting a domain controller to virtual. It may be best to demote the DC first then convert it. You can promote it back again after. When converting physical to virtual I have used Disk2VHD as I use HyperV.

[Admiral208]

I dont want to convert the DC, i want to restore the DC from backup to a virtual machine to test out DR plan.

[fiza]

I dont want to convert the DC, i want to restore the DC from backup to a virtual machine to test out DR plan.

 

Sorry misread your post

[Oaktech]

What Fiza said...

 

Our new domain is done with 3 virtual (across 2 physical hosts) and 1 physical DC to allow the DR plan to be quickly implementing onto anything capable of running VMware. the physical DC can come later when suitable hardware is available again.

[fiza]

Have you seen this?

 

How to restore system state tape backup - physical to VM? - Spiceworks