That's how I'm approaching things.  One physical, one maybe two virtual
DC's.  No need to upgrade the 2003 boxes, just let them go when it's their
time!

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]
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>  I’m not in a position to do it now, but I’m trying to think ahead a year
> or two and wondering how hard it’s going to be to upgrade our DCs when we
> want to go from 2003R2 to the newest and best thing. Assuming I wanted to
> upgrade today, would it be better to start from scratch on new hardware and
> just add the 2008 machine to the mix of the AD and then upgrade the schema
> or what?
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> Also, I was talking to a potential SAN vendor this morning and they
> mentioned virtualizing machines. I would think one would not want to
> virtualize all of their domain controllers, would you? Would it be safe to
> virtualize one DC and have one physical DC?
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