Deploying Virtual Servers and Migrating Roles Across Domains

This report analyzes the requirements for deploying virtual servers in a production environment, including building, configuring, securing, populating, monitoring, maintaining, and backing up the virtual environment, as well as troubleshooting processes. It also discusses critical factors for migrating roles across domains and forests, such as size and complexity, user impact, double administration, IT resource limitations, tools, and security. The report highlights the importance of securing the environment, managing IT resources effectively, and ensuring minimal disruption to users during the migration process. Key considerations include setting complex passwords, managing VMware vCenter administrators, using P2V conversion tools, and maintaining data integrity through backups and SIDHistory cleanup. The report references several academic sources to support its analysis of virtual server deployment and domain migration strategies.

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Analyse the requirement for deploying virtual server in production industry
The basic requirements that are required for deploying virtual server in production
industry are as follows: -
1. Building of Virtual Environment: Building of virtual phase includes the installation of
servers. Loading of virtualization in hypervisor. Loading of the centralised management
platform and adding virtual hosts to the management platform is performed.
2. Configuring of virtual environment: Configuring servers with static IP address along with
proper network setting will be required.
3. Securing Virtual Environment: Securing the virtual environment is required in the
production field. Setting of complex root password in the hosts are required. Adding of
authorized VMware vCenter administrators will be required. With the help of this VMware
vCenter administrator the main advantage that will be received is proper administration of the
SQL admins and developers are provided.
4. Populating of Virtual Environment: Adding of new virtual machines with the help of
virtual infrastructure with the help of the creation of VMs and installing the same in a clean
OS. This process will be performed with the help of the P2V conversion with the help of
tools, namely VMware’s Converter Enterprise (Gupta & Mukherjee 2016).
5. Monitoring of Virtual Environment: Monitoring of the new virtual post that will be
performed with the help of the graphs which will be plotted with the help of ESXi Server,
along with the vSphere Client. This section covers the Management Tool Selection process as
well. This stage is one of the most important requirements that will be needed for
implementation of virtual server in production industry.

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6. Maintaining Virtual Environment: Maintenance of a single virtual host is easy. This
section includes implementation of the maintenance tools. Patching management of the
maintenance tools are the main maintenance process that is used. The use of the VMware
vSphere is used as the commercial edition that will include Update Manager (Rondon et al
2018).
7. Backing up of the virtual environment: providing proper physical servers will include
better validity in backups. Usage of the backup virtual machines includes Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service. This will ensure that duplicates of data are created.
8. Trouble shooting process is also required in implementation of the Virtual server in
production industry. Using of the SAN, network and Virtualization software is used for
trouble shooting process.
Factors important to migrate roles across domains and forests
The main factors that are responsible for the migration of roles across domains and
forests include size and complexity, Impact on the users, Double administration, Limitation
of IT sources, Tools, Security of the process.
In case of taking into consideration the size and complexity of the entire system,
having a higher number of domains with wide range of availability is required in the process.
In case the number of domains is low and the diversity range is high the entire process will
get performed in a negative manner. For proper migration of roles, implementation of the
higher numbers of domains are required.
Understanding the impact of the users also plays an important role in the transferring
of roles from the one domain to another (Wu et al 2015). For proper migration process the
user need not log off and must be able to access all the functioning process as per the

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restructuring of the project. scheduling off hour workstations are also necessary in the
process.
Double administration also plays an important role in the commencement of the
transferring process. During the migration process in between the forests both the old and
new environments are intact in nature. Hence after the transferring period and
decommissioning of the old environment, changes can be made but, in that occasion, changes
will be required to be made in both the directories. That is changes made in one directory will
be required to be made in another directory as well.
IT resources required during the migration process is very high. As the time required
for the entire process is very long hence proper presence of IT resources are also high.
Securing the entire scenario is also a main factor in the migration phase. Migration
phase ensures the fact that in absence of security the roles that are being migrated might get
affected in a negative manner (Ross 2016). This is the main reason that setting up of
password is required. Permission provisioning must be performed. this is the major reason
that migration process does not get performed in a very efficient manner with the help of the
native tools. Cleaning up of the SIDHistory is required. With the help of cleaning up of the
SIDHistory the main advantage that will be required includes better management of the data
that are stored in the SIDHistory.

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