Hyper-V VM Lab + RRAS + RDP
- by Dennis Evans
My background is primarily .NET Development with some System Administration skills. I'm trying to set up a VM Lab for me to test System Applications I'm developing but I've only ever done System Administration in already set up environments; I've never set up my own.
My current setup:
Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host on physical machine (only role enabled) with two NICs.
First NIC dedicated for Management w/ DHCP address from company's network.
Second NIC dedicated to RRAS VM w/ DHCP address from company's network.
RRAS VM has two NICS, one is virtual private internal only NIC w/ static entry.
The other is the physical NIC mentioned above.
I've joined it to my VMLab.net internal domain.
My Active Directory Domain Controller server (ADCT) also runs DNS, DHCP, and Certificate Services which I'm familiar with but don't understand completely.
RRAS is already set up with NAT to provide the private internal network with Internet access. What I would like to do is be able to RDP into the servers/computers on the VMLab.net domain from my computer. Do I need to add the Remote Desktop Services role and enable the Remote Desktop Gateway service on RRAS in order to do this or is there a way to set up port forwarding on RRAS to just allow a direct connection to the internal servers...or both? What would the best practices be here?
Network Diagram
http://i.stack.imgur.com/4qfnk.png
