Hi all,
I am responsible for running a small-ish environment of around 40 machines and a few hyper-v hosts (in addition to my full-time post in a completely unrelated profession).
I have recently finished migrating our physical servers to virtual ones.
My main concern now is backing up our one and only virtual domain controller. This is a 2012R2 guest and is running 2012 R2 forest native mode. The physical host is Hyper-V and is also 2012 R2, so everything is all the same.
In terms of backing up a single forest root domain controller which is a 2012R2 guest on a 2012R2 hypervisor, what is the recommended practice these days? Am I OK to shut down the VM and make a copy of the VHDX and place it onto another host if needed? or do I have to use the new "export/import" features of hyper-v 2012 R2? As I understand, in the older days you should only ever have taken a system state backup of domain controllers due to roll back issues? Is this still the case?
Thank you.
