Hi Ken, as a part of my recent DC upgrade, I did make a small move to virtualisation. I used to have physical DC and server boxes, both old hot and noisy. I now have a physical DC and the server is a Hyper-V machine inside it. I could have taken it a step further and had a host OS which then has a virtual DC and server, but I ran into some obstacles.
As the host I originally considered using the stripped down Windows 2008 (I forget it’s name) which has nothing but a command prompt. I actually installed it and was so shocked by how primitive the interface was that I asked in this group if I wasn’t going mad, and I wasn’t. It was just too much bother to administer things from the command prompt. I then considered using a Linux host (virtual box?) for the DC and server and maybe others, but once again the learning curve was too time consuming. I’m happy with the currently setup. Now that I’ve been reminded, I’m going to take a backup of the Hyper-V files that contain my server. If the box explodes, then recreating the DC is a relatively trivial matter, as it’s just a DC and jukebox. I can then easily restore the virtual server which took days to prepare. Greg
