Are you talking about putting two DC instances on ONE host or two DC instances where each instance has its own host? Which VMware product are they thinking on using? What is the reason for such a scenario? DCs should only be administered by domain admins (or in other words: highly trusted and knowledgable people). Putting a DC in a virtual session on a host means that the host should also be treated as if it were a DC and thus that same host should only be administered by highly trusted and knowledgable people And as someone else also pointed out.... make sure you use ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY supported backup mechanisms that are AD aware. DO NOT USE images, snapshots or whatever to backup DCs. Be carefull for USN rollbacks: MS-KBQ875495_How to detect and recover from a USN rollback in Windows Server 2003 MS-KBQ885875_How to detect and recover from a USN rollback in Windows 2000 Server Jorge PS.: Another one I heard a few days ago was that someone wanted to use the mirror of the DC1 as a backup. The procedure looked like this: * shutdown DC * remove one of the mirror disks * start the DC * make the update * if something goes wrong shutdown the DC, remove the other mirror disk and re-insert the previously removed mirror disk and rebuild the other DON'T DO THAT!!! (it is like an image and it will hurt you) ________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Etts, Russell Sent: Mon 2006-01-30 23:55 To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Putting a DC on VMware Hi all One of our sites is looking to put two DCs on VM ware. I'm not too sure this is really the best thing to do. Am I being too paranoid? Can anyone point me in the right direction regarding suggestions on running a DC on Vmware? Even if there are white papers for running Exchange 2000 on Vmware? Thanks all Russ Remember, you can't spell "Quality" without "IT" This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.
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