Hi all, we are trying to figure out what is the best way to protect two live DCs for DR scenarios. We currently have Vsphere 5.1 U2 and vR appliance 5.1.1 and we have successfully implemented it and are currently replicating live servers for DR purposes. But when it comes to domain controllers we are seeing some issues specially when they are trying to replicate with eachother after we recover them in an isolated environment.
Event Type: Error Event Source: NTDS General Event Category: Service Control Event ID: 2103 Date: 3/10/2005 Time: 4:26:51 PM User: USN\2B25VB$ Computer: 2B9A Description: The Active Directory database has been restored using an unsupported restoration procedure. Active Directory will be unable to log on users while this condition persists. As a result, the Net Logon service has paused
so at this point we need trash the two domain controllers and start with a fresh copy of a domain controller. a few questions i have
1. has anyone experience this issue with vSphere Replicaiton when recovering with latest available data. We noticed that when we power on the first DC taht has been recovered it show the server has been shutdown unexpectedly. and also show on the second DC
2. is vSphere replicaiton not a good solution to use to replicate DCs (8 hour RPO)
3. Should we use only one DC and bypass AD replication all togheter?
REgards.
