I think I heard that vSPhere 5.1 includes the new feature.
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:11 PM To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Server 2012 and DC cloning / VM's Interesting. So does USN Rollback Protection now make Hyper-V a better alternative than VMWare or XenServer for virtualization of DCs? On 29 August 2012 16:56, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: “In Windows Server 2012, you are now provided the option to perform domain controller cloning. What this means is that you will no longer have to manually deploy a server image virtual machine and disk file and then go through the manual processes to promote the machine to a domain controller. With Windows Server 2012, the cloned domain controller will perform a number of actions that sysprep would perform and promotes the virtual machine with the existing local Active Directory DS data as installation media, taking advantage of administrator-provided settings like the machine name and IP addressing information….” “…As you probably know, Microsoft Hyper-V includes some very useful and powerful snapshot abilities. These snapshots enable you to save the state of a domain controller at any point in time. Typically you would take these snapshots when things are working the way you want them to work. You can then restore the snapshot when things go sideways in your datacenter and you need a quick fix. Restoring the snapshot discards all changes that have been made since the time you took the snapshot and in operating systems prior to Windows Server 2012, it forced the domain controller to quarantine itself using a method called “USN rollback protection…”. Full article here: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-Server-2012-Virtualized-Domain-Controllers.html ~ 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
