Good for you. It's been an issue in three datacenter restarts I've done in the last few years. Obviously, pretty easy to overcome once you run into it the first time - but not something you want to worry about when you are powering a datacenter back on after an outage.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualization - Sizing, hard disk config On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh, yes, I was also planning on re-purposing one of our old servers (with >> new OS) >> once everything's moved over to the new box. > > The support issue is mainly a non-issue, Microsoft apparently may ask that > you reproduce > any issue on physical hardware to rule out virtualisation, but their default > stance won't be > "It's a VM go away". The main reason I want a physical DC is to avoid the chicken-and-egg problem of starting the Hyper-V host when the DC is a guest on that host. (And I want to keep the host OS as lean as possible, so no DC there.) We already have the hardware, so that's easy. -- Ben ~ 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
