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Microsoft® Virtual AcademyActive Directory and

Migrating Hyper-V with PowerShell

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Active Directory in VM

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• Why discuss this topic?• Distributed database aspects• DNS set up

• Cannot use Azure internal DNS servers for AD

• Use a DIP (Dynamic IP address) for a Domain Controller?

• Disk caching setting for AD database ?

Active Directory in VM

Migrating VHDs from Hyper-V

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• Disks in Azure VMs• C:\ - Windows OS disk (on blob storage)• D:\ - Local disk (on local server) - for temp files, such as pagefile.sys• E:\, F:\, etc - Data disks (on blob storage)

• Each data disk can be max 1 TB in size

• Max number of data disks depends on VM size - up to 16 data disks

Disks in VMs

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• Format• Only vhd-files (not vhdx-files)• Only fixed size vhd-files• No differencing vhd-files

• Can convert any vhdx to vhd• Can convert any vhd to fixed size• Can resize vhd to smaller size

VHD files

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• Portal access• Uses Live ID (Microsoft Account)• Go to http://manage.windowsazure.com

• Role: Service Administrator or Co-Administrator• Uses special REST API without providing certificate

• Management certificate• Certificate can be self-signed• Does not check certificate expiration• Used by PowerShell• Used by REST API

• Storage access• Uses secret key• Or anonymous share access

• RDP VM access• Uses username/password

Authentication and Access (4x)

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• Use PowerShell command (Add-AzureVHD) to upload vhd-file• Prepare vhd-file in Hyper-V

• Allow RDP access• Don't worry about IP network settings• (optional) Pagefile on D:\

• Do not use older csupload.exe

• The upload PowerShell command is "smart"• Converts dynamic vhd-file to static vhd-file• Uploads "sparse" (= skips empty parts)

• Add-AzureDisk en Add-AzureImage is something else

Upload your own VHD-file

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• Can use Portal to download vhd-file

• Use PowerShell command (Save-AzureVHD) to download vhd-file

• What can you do with download vhd-file?• VHD-file is fixed size - can convert to dynamically expanding• Load in Hyper-V

• What about networking?• Configure running VM

Download VHD-file to Hyper-V

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