Migrate Your Production Active Directory Setup to Any Public Cloud

Most enterprises want to use the public cloud for their bursty workloads including development, QA/test, upgrade testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and training environments. However, these application environments are inextricably tied to their data center infrastructure – virtualization, networking topologies including IP addressing, as well as DNS and domain controller infrastructure, and more. This makes running these environments in the public cloud for development and QA very challenging because the public cloud has a completely different infrastructure.

Nested virtualization offers an interesting solution that allows enterprises to run their existing VMware based workloads in any public cloud such as AWS or Google Cloud without modifying their VMs or networking and enables them to create development and QA environments on-demand, as needed.

Enterprises simply import their virtual machines (VMware VMs or KVM VMs) into Ravello and then deploy the entire multi-VM workload into AWS (EC2) or Google cloud. With Ravello importing a virtual machine image is as easy as uploading an object to AWS S3.

Some applications depend on the organizations authentication and authorization infrastructure which is internal to the data center. With Ravello, deploying enterprise identity federation/directory services to the cloud is as straightforward as uploading a VM (e.g., an Active Directory VM) and deploying it to the cloud as a part of the overall application environment.

Sometimes, enterprises may not want to replicate their entire Active Directory service as a part of the cloud application environment, but instead, only replicate selected Domain Controllers relevant for that application. In this blog series, we focus on how can you replicate selected Domain Controllers or a complete Active Directory setup to Ravello/ AWS.

There are four parts to this series:

1. Introduction & Active Directory Configuration
2. Promote a Server to a Domain Controller & Create a User
3. Deploy a Domain Controller on Ravello (running on AWS)
4. Deploy a Selected Domain Controller from a Multi Domain Controller Environment

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