I never put any of my virtual hosts in the domain but then I still had one physical DC.
Jon On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:02 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > Sounds like a very sound argument for at least one physical DC. I think > I'll consider keeping the two I have physical and perhaps adding a virtual > DC. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:49 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later) > > In regards to having DCs virtualized. We have 15 DCs and only 2 of them > are physical (PDCe and another GC). When we bring down the data center for a > recovery exercise or a scheduled power outage, we need to have AD come up > first since other things are authenticating against it. This makes it much > quicker then waiting for the VMWare environment to come online. Another > benefit is that if there is an issue with the back end storage where the > VMWare LUNS reside, we have something to authenticate against until it comes > back. > > YMMV > ~ 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
