Hi - Sorry for the confusion on the thread (the Your Name thing happens from a mis-configured web-based email reader).
The errors -- now lost to posterity -- began showing up in the logs of the virtual machines (Virtual Server 2005). These manifest as problems logging into the DCs and eventually even booting them. This all happened in the virtual environment. I then started having problems with the physical host system (W2k3). I checked disk fragmentation on the host and found significant fragmentation. Brett, you said that the fragmentation in the underlying host should not cause corruption in the VMs, just slowness. Can fragmentation in a virtual disk cause problems in the underlying host or in other VMs? Regardless, the machine greeted me with a BSOD this morning from which I could not recover. The machine had a RAID card that did not meet the HCL for W2k3. I have pulled the card and will now re-install on non-redundant drives (and do frequent backups). The question for me is will installing Exchange on a VM cause problems either in the underlying host or in other VMs? -- nme 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/
