Install Operating System

I'm going to give the recreated virtual machine a try here today. Nope it locks the host up as well. Huh. So the only difference I can see with this virtual machine and the other virtual machines working correctly is that FIREFLY-01 is utilizing the physical NIC #2 while the rest are using NIC #1 from HV-03. In fact now that I think about it, I had always just been randomly selecting one of the two NICs when I created a virtual machine, and it sort of feels like each time I had the host lock up I had selected NIC #2 and when I went back to recreate the virtual machines I selected NIC #1. Is that physical port broken?

So I switch FIREFLY-01 to use NIC #1 instead and it begins behaving properly. So it is something with NIC #2, the question becomes what is wrong with it? I took a look at HV-03 in Windows Admin Center. It turns out that NIC #2 in Networks doesn't show an IP address. I know I set one up when I set up the Dell r730 but maybe I forgot to hit save? I assign NIC #2 the IP address it should have been utilizing which should resolve this issue with my virtual machines moving forward.

While I looked into the issue with NIC #2 I walked through Debian's installation wizard to install the operating system.

Configure Operating System

Configure Network

Steps performed on FIREFLY-01 via console

• nano /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.10.XXX
gateway 10.10.10.254
netmask 255.255.255.0

• I save the file interfaces
• systemctl restart networking

Steps performed on DC-02 via Windows Admin Center

• Navigate to DNS
  • Navigate to Forward Lookup Zones
  • Select domain.local
  • Click on Create a new DNS Record
    • DNS Record Type: Host (A)
    • Record Name: FIRELFY
    • FQDN: FIREFLY.domain.local
    • IP Address: 10.10.10.XXX
    • Time to live: 3600
    • Click on Create

I'm out of time again. Progress for this project is slow, but it is progress so it counts. Plus I solved a weird problem that had been bugging me for some time. Definitely a productive day!