I would be looking at maybe one virtual in each of the outer offices and one in the main office with leaving all of your physicals in place until they were dying or were no longer supportable. Putting them on the SAN for backup purposes is a very good idea.
Jon On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:36 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > We’re a relatively small organization (3 sites, all within 30 minutes > driving distance, connected by a VPN) and currently have 2 physical DCs. My > only concern about having all virtual DCs is that I’m not sure I’d be > comfortable with that. I don’t know enough about virtual machines to be > comfortable with all my eggs in one basket. J > > > > I certainly wouldn’t object to having 1 or 2 virtual DCs and let them > reside on the SAN. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, March 26, 2010 1:30 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later) > > > > Would that not depend on the load, how old the hardware is, and what you > intend to do at the time? I know that the last place I worked we skipped > the 2003 R2 step and went with 2008 but that machine was a VM as I did not > want to keep a lot of hardware around. Space for them was at a premium both > in the racks and on the floor. The only reason for the last DC to remain > physical was that it was the PDCe and there were several trusts involved > that were very difficult to setup and keep running due to the way the > networking was done. If things were different there would have been no > phyical DC's all would have been VM's running on two differnet boxes. > > > > Jon > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:22 PM, John Aldrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > > > 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? > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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