A little bit of a tangent: I had built an entire virtual network with DCs and an Exchange server. I started getting tons of serious corruption errors in the logs and soon DC2 would just not boot. It turns out that the host machine was horribly fragmented.
Is the presence of Exchange a likely culprit? If so, is the solution to run Exchange on a physical box patched in via a physical extension of that virtual network? -- nme -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Exchange in VM (was RE: [ActiveDir] Running DCs in Virtual Server 2005 - whitepaper) It's not support in any emulated environment. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Lynch Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Exchange in VM (was RE: [ActiveDir] Running DCs in Virtual Server 2005 - whitepaper) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Because VS2005 wasn't designed for intensive I/O, CPU or RAM systems. VS2005 has on average a 35-45% overhead on the host machine, because of the Host OS. Also, all VM's are running in Emulated Mode on the CPU. VMware would be better suited for your need of Exchange running within a VM. VS2005 doesn't offer the same performance enhancements VMware ESX server can, and GSX server for that matter. Ok, GSX doesn't offer CPU resource throttling, like VS2005. But, I would rather spend the extra money for GSX, and have a more stable virtualization platform than VS/VPC 2005. Chris List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
