doodguy

No for the secondary DC, I did clean windows install, and added active directory role and am now tryin to promote to DC and keep getting this error.

Bump; anyone have any direction or anything I can try? I'm stuck on this one

I tried to do this but the drives on my physical DC have a size of 800GB (only 200GB in use), and my drives on my NAS is only 1TB with other info on it, so it was erroring out on me

Yes, the VM DC computer is joined to the domain.

This is for my personal home lab, so no I am going completely virtual.

Hello everyone, I have a server running windows server 2012 running as my domain controller. I installed ESXI 5.5 on a server, and then created a virtual machine through VSphere installing server 2012. I gave the server a static IP, and set the primary DNS to the DNS of my other domain controller. Then I added the active directory and dns roles. The internet works fine. Now I am trying to promote to domain controller and keep getting error: "Verification of replica failed: Failed to examine the Active Directory forest. The error was: ridmasterserver.dnshostname failed." I am doing this for experimentation as I am new to administering windows and domains, so any help is appreciated. Thank you