{"id":2789,"date":"2023-04-22T00:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/moving-from-1-physical-2-virtual-to-3-virtual-windows-servers-ad\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:52:03","slug":"moving-from-1-physical-2-virtual-to-3-virtual-windows-servers-ad","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/moving-from-1-physical-2-virtual-to-3-virtual-windows-servers-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving from 1 Physical 2 Virtual to 3 Virtual Windows Servers AD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We currently employ three Windows Servers Running AD:<\/p>\n

1 Physical Server on-Prem (Prem-AD01)<\/p>\n

2 Virtual Servers in Azure (VM-AD01 & VM-AD02)<\/p>\n

One of the Virtuals does most of the heavy lifting. In fact, our Fortigate currently hands out the aforementioned Virtual (VM-AD01) as the DNS. Our Domain has access to Azure via an Azure Virtual Network Gateway (VpnGw2).<\/p>\n

Today , I ran a test. I took Prem-AD01 off line; I wanted to see how the local physical network would react.<\/p>\n

Predictably, not well. Internet access slowed down to a crawl with a lot of time-outs.<\/p>\n

I checked network settings and whilst Prem-AD01 is up, DNS is VM-AD01; when down, same deal.<\/p>\n

I’ve verified that the only 53 traffic that is hitting Prem-AD01 when up is from VM-AD01 & VM-AD02 checking in.<\/p>\n

Now, I am guessing some of the problems are the result of failing to take Prem-AD01 down properly (i.e. demotion) but I don’t know for sure and I want to understand this before I propose any changes to our network.<\/p>\n

So, any ideas\/thoughts?<\/p>\n

I appreciate it; thank you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","question-category":[12],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-active-directory"],"yoast_head":"\nMoving from 1 Physical 2 Virtual to 3 Virtual Windows Servers AD - WindowsTechno Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/moving-from-1-physical-2-virtual-to-3-virtual-windows-servers-ad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moving from 1 Physical 2 Virtual to 3 Virtual Windows Servers AD - WindowsTechno Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good Afternoon (EDT): We currently employ three Windows Servers Running AD: 1 Physical Server on-Prem (Prem-AD01) 2 Virtual Servers in Azure (VM-AD01 & VM-AD02) One of the Virtuals does most of the heavy lifting. 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