Boot process, ISCSI, NFS and AD

[Thomymaster]

Hi

In my setup the DC is virtualised and resides on a datastore which comes from my FreeNAS box via ISCSI (no i don't want to hear comments about it :) ).

My FreeNAS box is also in the domain for CIFS shares.

Now when i have to restart FreeNAS in case of a crash or so, the DC is also not available meaning that the boot process will get stuck at multiple points and i have to press CTRL+C to continue.
Then the ISCSI target (CTL) gets started, the DC comes up and i can join the FreeNAS box the domain .

So the boot process is:

AD join (fails)
CTL (ISCSI)

The question is now if somebody knows wheter NFS gets started before the AD join during the boot of FreeNAS?
Because then i would be able to have the DC on an NFS share and could (hopefully) get around this problem.


Cheers,
Thomy

 

[depasseg]

I've had that issue for years with every storage solution I've used. In the end I just created a secondary DC on the the local storage of my ESX server, that way there is a DC and DNS available while the storage system is restarting.

 

[Thomymaster]

But if you run Windows Server 2011 SBS you cannot have 2 DCs :(

 

[depasseg]

That could be a problem. Sorry, I can't think of anything. Even if you went with NFS (and assume NFS loaded before the AD Join), I would imagine that the DC server still wouldn't be up in time to service the AD Join request.