I just restored 2 DC's from snapshots last week. I had snapshotted them both at the exact same time. Shut them both down and did the snapshot restore. They were perfectly happy coming back together...
From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 6:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: To VM or not VM? If it's a DC, aren't you supposed to recover them as if they were physical, rather than using snapshots? I'd think a snapshot restore would risk a USN problem, would it not? 2009/10/19 Jonathan Link <[email protected]> I think the ability to snapshot before an update applied is a killer feature. In a remote office, I think it's even more crucial. -Jonathan On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: We have a remote office with 20 users and a six month old file/print server. It also has a 166 year old 2003 DC (ok, not that old, but it's a Pentium III with 4GB on the C: drive. My fellow SE's like to VM everything these days - does it make sense to send out a physical server with one VM on it, especially a DC? There are no foreseeable plans to put another server out there. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
