RE: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 1:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualisation structural question On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: And if you're a non profit Datacenter is a no brainer. A single cpu of DC edition for us is under

RE: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-15 Thread N Parr
If you buy CPU licenses of Data Center Server you can run as many as you want. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualisation structural question If you purchase

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-15 Thread Jon Harris
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 14, 2010 5:08 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Virtualisation structural question If you purchase the Enterprise version of 2k8 R2 I think it comes with 4 virtual licenses. That would allow for: VM Host on physical machine DC1 on Virtual machine 1

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
wrote: If you buy CPU licenses of Data Center Server you can run as many as you want. -- *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 14, 2010 5:08 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Virtualisation structural question

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: And if you’re a non profit Datacenter is a no brainer. A single cpu of DC edition for us is under (don’t hate me…) $400! [blank stare] [splutter] [goes cross-eyed] -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Tavares
I would make the AD its own VM. On the off chance that you need to do something with AD that requires a reboot you don't have to reboot everything (also makes life easier in the future) The one caveat to this is you want to set the priority so AD boots before Exchange (I assume hyper-v gives

RE: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Malcolm Reitz
I would prefer to run the host as VM host only. I would also create 3 VMs - DC, file, Exchange. I don't like to mix file services in to a domain controller as it creates security administration issues. -Malcolm From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Monday,

RE: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Oliver Marshall
[mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: 14 June 2010 16:29 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualisation structural question I would prefer to run the host as VM host only. I would also create 3 VMs - DC, file, Exchange. I don't like to mix file services in to a domain controller

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2support http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter *From:* Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] *Sent:* 14 June 2010 16:29 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Virtualisation structural

Re: Virtualisation structural question

2010-06-14 Thread Jon Harris
://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter *From:* Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] *Sent:* 14 June 2010 16:29 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Virtualisation structural question I would prefer to run the host as VM host only