We’re in the process of shutting down the on-premises setup of our company environment running on VMware.  We have a DC, SQL server, accounting server and a couple terminal servers used for remote access.  I have created the necessary Azure migration assessment and ready to start the replication of the 1st batch of servers.  Because we have a legacy custom SQL app, we must maintain standard Windows AD, so I’ll be moving our DC virtual machine.  Azure AD will not work thus the need to migrate our on-prem DC. 

My question is replicating and copying our on-prem domain controller from VMware up to Azure but keeping it running following the replication migration up to Azure.  I know the normal process of replication is to shutdown the running on-prem VMs once the final delta replication has completed.  However, I need to keep my on-prem AD environment running for about another month as I build the Azure environment in parallel.  I understand that the two environments will not be in-sync if new domain users are created but this likely will not need to occur with the small size of the company.  Basically, does the Azure migration process allow us to keep the migrated VMs running following the final replication sync?  I’ll do this replication during non-production hours so network activity will be zero.

Thanks for any suggestions or input.

Ken  

​We’re in the process of shutting down the on-premises setup of our company environment running on VMware.  We have a DC, SQL server, accounting server and a couple terminal servers used for remote access.  I have created the necessary Azure migration assessment and ready to start the replication of the 1st batch of servers.  Because we have a legacy custom SQL app, we must maintain standard Windows AD, so I’ll be moving our DC virtual machine.  Azure AD will not work thus the need to migrate our on-prem DC.  My question is replicating and copying our on-prem domain controller from VMware up to Azure but keeping it running following the replication migration up to Azure.  I know the normal process of replication is to shutdown the running on-prem VMs once the final delta replication has completed.  However, I need to keep my on-prem AD environment running for about another month as I build the Azure environment in parallel.  I understand that the two environments will not be in-sync if new domain users are created but this likely will not need to occur with the small size of the company.  Basically, does the Azure migration process allow us to keep the migrated VMs running following the final replication sync?  I’ll do this replication during non-production hours so network activity will be zero. Thanks for any suggestions or input.Ken    Read More

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