I've worked with some large scale customers who have run the whole thing on VM - it's not a hard and fast requirement to have one physical box "just because". Obviously these customers have had VM environments with a level of redundancy built in to them.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server You should have one physical Domain Controller for authentication and name resolution uncase something goes bump in the night in your virtual environment. Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Jon Harris [email protected] Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:40:14 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server Letting users into the DataCenter would qualify correct? Should there not be some fail safe to remove the users and destroy the DataCenter after the contamination event? Joking here well maybe... Jon On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Rodriguez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What are the pros and cons of putting both your PDC and 2nd DC in > seperate > > Virtual environments on the same box? > > The only pro I can think of would be, if you want to halt all IT > operations, you only have to kill one box... > > (I'm being facetious here, but on occasion such a scenario does come > up. For example, think of a military forward command post in hostile > territory. They're typically required to have have procedures to > destroy everything quickly in the event of "imminent compromise by > hostile forces".) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft(r) Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
