Creating VHD using Microsoft's Systernals Disk2VHD program of production box

Question

I created a VHD file of our small production server (hosting internal web pages for the company). I'd like to set up the VHD up as a dev server so that it'll be a mirror of the production system and I know the two environments are the same. It'll be a connected to our Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V.

What changes do I need to make so that it can co-exist on our network with the production server, other than the IP address? Is simply updating the IP enough? Licensing is handled through our MSDN account so that is covered.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '19 at 15:50

Make sure to run a sysprep generalize on the server before allocating it a network card.

Without a generalize, renaming it can be dangerous to make, as it can lockout your other server out of the domain, as technically both server got the same SID, thus a rename can affect the computer account in your active directory.

Creating VHD using Microsoft's Systernals Disk2VHD program of production box

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