In Hyper-V or VMware virtualization environment, Enable/Disable NIC in a VM is not a big deal. Even if you do not have NIC or valid IP configure, administrators still can connect to VM as it does have “Console” access. Few weeks ago, I received an email from one of my regular blog readers. He accidently disabled NIC in azure vm and he lost RDP access to it. since there is no console…
In my previous article I explain the use of AD sites, subnets. If you still not read it you can find it here.
In this article let’s look in to sites and subnet setup and configurations.
In demo I am using the following setup.
Server Name
Roles
Operating System
Site
Subnets
DC1.contoso.com
Primary Domain Controller
Windows server standard 2012 R2
Site A…