The environment in this scenario consists of a data center with
five domain controllers. Each domain controller is on a VMware guest.
One physical domain controller is also included. The domain controllers
are in two geographic locations and replicate with each other using
a standard Active Directory replication process.
Figure 1. Data Protection for VMware protects
the VMware guests that host Active Directory Domain Controllers.
Note: This scenario uses the Tivoli® Storage
Manager backup-archive
client command-line interface to back up and restore the VM guests.
The Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive
client GUI can also be used to complete these tasks.
- VM guests VDC1 and VDC3 are backed up by issuing the following
commands on the Tivoli Storage
Manager backup-archive
client command-line interface:
dsmc backup vm vdc1 dsmc backup vm vdc3 - VDC1 is recovered with non-authoritative restore by issuing the
following command:
dsmc restore vm vdc1 - After the server restarts, the restored Active Directory domain controller (on VDC1) replicates non-authoritatively with other domain controllers in the network. Make sure to manually reboot the restored VM guest.
- Verify that the replication completed successfully.