I have rarely worked where a datacenter reboot or datacenter shutdown followed by a power-up didn't have a challenge, but keeping a Hyper-V in a domain while I can see would make it easier to setup management and access just never made sense to me but then that is just me and my experience and it is no where near Michael's level.
Jon On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > IMHO – the only issue is that you need to have more than one DC and they > need to be hosted on more than one physical server.**** > > ** ** > > THE MAJOR CHALLENGE is that, in the case of a “datacenter reboot” or > “datacenter shutdown” followed by a “datacenter power-up”, restoring service > can be a bit challenging. However, there are ways to handle this.**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > ** ** > > Michael B. Smith**** > > Consultant and Exchange MVP**** > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:33 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: [Microsoft support] Is it me...**** > > ** ** > > That was why I never made a Hyper-V host a member of any domain if it would > host a DC. Just plain bad news.**** > > **** > > Jon**** > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > ..or is there no 24x7 pay per incident number for support on Microsoft > Servers? I keep getting to this page (2008 R2) and choosing “Virtualization” > and “Other” I get support times of 6a-6pm. > > https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?st=1&as=1&iid=1059&iguid=d535992c-b4dd-49a7-b4a8-2b14e5649525_1_1&x=10&y=17&c1=508&sd=gn&c=SMC&ln=en-us&prid=13020&gsaid=582847 > **** > > **** > > I had a situation the other night where I thought I was going to have to > call them because I uh…have a Hyper-V host that’s a domain member and it was > requiring connection to a DC to start a guest VM, and the guest VM was the > DC it needed to talk to!**** > > **** > > Invoking some DR steps I got back in business, but still…do you need to > have some kind of support contract to have them available 24x7?**** > > *David Lum* > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764**** > > **** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
