No MS OS is supported on VMWARE unless you have a Premier contract and then it is only best effort.
See http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/897615 Any mechanism to roll back the DCs disk in time is dangerous and would need to be strictly controlled. It could definitely cause significant forest issues. There needs to be one group under one manager that controls the domain controllers in a forest. This goes for any forest on physical or virtual so that everyone is on the same page with how things are done. Different admins reporting through different managers is a recipe for disaster. The virtualization simply makes things easier to rollback which puts you a little closer to the line of pain. Don't get me wrong, proper use of virtualization can give you some very cool benefits. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Virtual Domain Controllers All, Is anybody currently running Domain Controllers in VMware of Virtual Server? Have there been any problems with this environment? There is a big push at my company to virtualize every environment but, I am sure Domain Controllers should be virtualized. One of my biggest concerns is the snapshot feature. I do not have full control over the Domain Controllers and I worry that another Admin will take a snapshot of the DC and make a few changes and if they don't work, revert to the snapshot before the changes. Wouldn't this be the same as using an older ghost image of the DC? I'm just looking for some feedback to see if this is a viable solution. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
