Ken, in future I will consider making everything virtual where reasonably possible. I didn’t want to waste a complete Windows OS just to be a host, but as I said, the stripped down Win2008 was too hard to drive and I didn’t have time to experiment with Linux Virtual Box. So the easy decision was to let the DC be the host. The machine is 15 months old and is an i7 with only 4MB of RAM. If it was more powerful then I would have probably used a different host OS – Greg
You have a physical host that is a DC, and you then have a server as a guest VM (that is presumably joined to the DC’s domain?) If the physical machine goes bust, you’re going to have to create a new DC, and rejoin the machine to the new domain. This means your previous user accounts on the member server will no longer be valid, and various other oddities may occur (depending on the apps you are using). I’d consider virtualising your DC as well.
