[Openstack-operators] Guidance on Windows VMs with active directory

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Sat Jun 8 11:57:15 UTC 2013


Hi Razique:

Yeah, I had gotten some incorrect information about how DNS updates work, I
need to go back and debug it some other, I'll let you know.

Lorin


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Razique Mahroua
<razique.mahroua at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Lorin,
> I'm not sure the DNS updates are made through the DHCP req - You don't
> need to have your own local DHCP server if you want to integrate a new
> domain controller.
> Can other instance see it? I had to do with tcp/ udp broadcasting I think
>
> Razique
>
> Le 8 juin 2013 à 05:31, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com> a
> écrit :
>
> Hi Razique:
>
> The issues I'm thinking about are around setting up a Windows domain
> inside of running instances. I don't think that's covered by sysprep stuff.
>
> In my case, I've deployed a domain controller inside of my cloud, but when
> I join other instances to it, the DNS server inside the domain controller
> doesn't get updated with the name of the new machine.
>
> My understanding is that DNS entries only get added in the domain
> controller if the other instances use the domain controller as the DHCP
> server, since the dynamic DNS update is part of that process. But in
> OpenStack, the DHCP server is dnsmasq.
>
> Has anybody run into this issue? What do you use for DNS in this case? Do
> you use dnsmasq, and point your domain controller to the network controller
> node? Do you somehow configure dnsmasq to forward the dynamic DNS updates
> to the domain controller?
>
> Lorin
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Razique Mahroua <razique.mahroua at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hey Lorin,
>> You have actually a couple of solutions, but the easiest one is to use
>> Sysprep image
>> we were talking about that a couple of weeks ago :
>> http://markmail.org/message/zkr4um3ozskp2onj
>>
>> take care
>>  *Razique Mahroua** - **Nuage & Co*
>> razique.mahroua at gmail.com
>> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15
>>
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>>
>> Le 4 juin 2013 à 23:18, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Does anybody have experience running a Windows domain inside of an
>> OpenStack cloud, using Active Directory?
>>
>> I'm doing Windows Active Directory stuff for the first time, and I'd be
>> interested to hear what strategies people use to automate the tasks such as
>> joining guests into a domain. (Any problems running a Domain Controller
>> inside of a guest? Do you hard-code domain info into images, do you
>> configure with userdata, or do you configure after booting using a tool?
>> How do you deal with DNS? etc.).
>>
>> Lorin
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>
>
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>


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