And diff or rollback virtual hard disks are not supported. Neither is copying off the virtual hard disk. Also please turn off the write cache on the host.
Cheers, BrettSh ESE SDE [msft] On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ion Gott wrote: > Definitely good points on some of the key items to take into account when it > comes to the virtualization of anything. > > In regards to Microsoft stance on support of DC's on virtualization > platforms, this changed a few months ago and it is actually now supported I > believe without the premier support agreement....see > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888794 > > Quote from the KB: > > Support for Active Directory domain controllers in virtual hosting > environments > > We do not test the functionality of Active Directory domain controllers in > virtual hosting environments. However, we will help troubleshoot domain > controllers that run in virtual hosting environments, whether the virtual > hosting environment comes from Microsoft or from a third party. If the host > environment causes a problem, the vendor of the host environment must provide > support. One method to determine whether the host environment causes a > problem is to determine whether the problem occurs when the host environment > is installed on the hardware that is listed in the Microsoft Hardware > Compatibility list or in the Microsoft Windows Tested Products list. > > I have deployed Windows 2003 domain controllers on VMWare GSX and ESX server > platforms at several clients over the past 5-6 months. From a performance > standpoint everything functions well and overall DC's tend to make good > candidates for virtualization. > > For example on several DL380 G4 servers with dual Xeon processes and 6GB of > RAM I am running 5 domain controllers per physical server on VMWare GSX > server 3.2 at different data center locations and supporting various child > domains. > > As far as the security of the physical host it was placed in an empty forest > root (Another hot topic as to even being secure...I know) with hardening via > local policy and ACL rights on the server itself. > > Hope that helps... > > Ion V. Gott > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe > Sent: Tue 1/31/2006 5:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Putting a DC on VMware > > > 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 > > -- > O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Etts, Russell > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:55 PM > 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" > > 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/
