To everyone that responded - thank you very much!! I appreciate it! Russ
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Putting a DC on VMware Etts, Russell wrote: > 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? > Not VMWare specific but virtual machine in general (read Virtual Server :) ): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64DB845D-F7A3-4 209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en. I'm not sure about support policy but runnning MS OS on Vmaware may not be fully supported - has to check that. Here You have KB about running MS software on non-MS virtualization software: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615/ Exchange 2003 is supported on VM in some range: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320220 Here You will find a white paper about running Exchange in VMWare ESX: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureid=2172 -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl 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/ 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/
