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Power on procedure

Power on physical servers

Physical NetManager servers:

  • proxy

XenServer hosts:

  • xenbackup01
  • xendesktop01
  • xendesktop02
  • xendesktop03
  • xendesktop04
  • xendesktop05
  • xenserver01
  • xenserver02
  • xenserver03

Start VMs on Linton DR pool

The only VMs that need to be started here don't have a dependency on anything else:

  • backup
  • salt01

Start VMs on the Linton pool

Dependency free VMs

Start any VMs which don't have a dependency on any other service:

  • Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance
  • Unifi
  • NetManager
  • stor2rrd

Domain controllers:

Start a single domain controller:

  • DC01

Wait for this server to reach the login screen - this is likely to be slow as a single domain controller will be looking for and waiting for other domain controllers

Then start the second domain controller:

  • DC02 (avoid the same server as DC01)

Windows Activation server

To try and reduce any Windows activation related issues:

  • KMS

File, database, and service servers

i.e. these are likely providing services to other places

  • ABTutor
  • Applayers
  • GADS
  • Homeareas
  • Oliver
  • PVSCore
  • Paxton
  • Printers2019
  • Resources
  • SIMS
  • Semieta
  • Solidworks
  • XenCore
  • sQuid

Start physical PVS servers

If these were already running for some reason then leaving them running would likely be OK:

  • PVS01
  • PVS02

Start XenDesktop services

Start delivery controllers:

  • XDC01
  • XDC02 (avoid the same server as XDC01)

Access to publisher resources

Start NetScaler infrastructure

  • NetScaler Virtual Appliance
  • nslb01
  • nslb02 (avoid the same server as nslb01)

Backend services only

User's wouldn't be able to tell if these are running or not and so these VMs can be started later than the rest:

  • AADC
  • Collector
  • ELM
  • Every
  • MDT
  • MDT7
  • ManageEngine
  • Management
  • Solus
  • WDS
  • WSUS

Check Windows firewall profile

Any domain joined Windows installation which started before a domain controller was running may be using a firewall profile that isn't the domain one, potentially firewalling itself and preventing connections from other machines for some services.

The most likely candidate for a problem is the first domain controller:

  • DC01 (restart it)
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