Things to keep in mind that others mentioned but I just
wanted to emphasize.
1. Understand your supportability position. If you do not
have a Premier contract or a contract through a services organization such as HP
you do not even have best effort support for the OS on VMWARE. You will need to
reproduce any issues on hardware (or Virtual Server) to get MS to engage. If you
have Premier you get best effort but could still end up having to reproduce
outside of VMWARE.
2. Security security security security. Who owns the hosts
running the DCs? They better be domain admins because they could be if they
wanted to be.
3. Exchange is supported on only Virtual Server R2 and
under a very specific set of circumstances.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Etts, Russell
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:55 PM
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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"
