>I have a VMware ESX cluster, and want to practice the steps for upgrading >my domain from AD 2000 to AD 2003 (then, AD2008 later). I can recall doing >something similar 3 years back with the regular VMware Server, but that >was on a physically isolated network. Here, I want to do it on the >production ESX cluster.
FWIW, My whole AD/MS infrastructure is virtualized on ESXi and when I want to test I simply fire up a copy of the latest backups of the whole thing on a vlan with its own switches. I don't change a damn thing, easy and fairly accurate as to what might happen on the production side. Pretty quick here, my vmfs stores will be NFS exported ZFS filesystems on a Solaris box so I can make an immediate snap and export those to test with recent versions of my AD. jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
