Two separate servers, identical. Primary=Chicago, Secondary=Omaha. Both located in the same building in Minneapolis, actually. Server 2008R2 on both.
Both have a 250GB system drive (C:) and a 8TB file share drive (F:) [(G:) on the Omaha]
Chicago has AD, DNS, DHCP, and Print server stuff enabled and we run off of this.
Omaha has been set up as a second domain controller (somewhat). It has DNS and DFS-R for the F: drive set up on it, and SHOULD replicate/duplicate everything that Chicago does.
It doesn't. I want it to be able to completely take over for Chicago when I unplug it from the wall.
1. How do I make it so that the file share can simply step in when Chicago fries its motherboard? Right now it's set to read-only on Omaha so that if someone gets on Omaha and tries to mess with the folders, it won't sync back to Chicago. Also, not everything is copied over of the 4TB that needs to be there.
2. How do I make sure printers and GPOs all get actively replicated between Chicago and Omaha?
3. Is there anything else to check?