On Sep 14, 2019, at 11:23, miguel medalha <medal...@sapo.pt> wrote: > I hope that someone here can give some advice on the following: > > I have a Samba based Active Directory. A CentOS 7.6 machine runs as a file > server and hosts the Windows user profiles for all the Windows workstations. > > Now management has decided that they need a Windows server for a couple of > administrative applications, which need MS SQL Server. That would be the only > role of this Windows. Since the above mentioned server has enough resources > (2x Quad Core Xeon 2.66 GHz with HT and 48 GB of RAM, a dual port 10 Gb NIC) > I thought of making it a host for a Windows virtual machine using KVM. Given > the resources and current setup we have, at the moment it wouldn't be > practical to implement both servers as VMs on top of a bare metal hypervisor. > > According to your experience, is there any motive why I shouldn't use such a > setup?
Not sure if it works for you, but there’s an SQL server that runs on Linux. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-2017 -- Jonathan Billings _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
