RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

[Robert Rutherford]

Title: Virtual DCs

I’m a great advocate of VMWare and use it for many services. If the hardware supports the load… happy days!     Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited   The Enterprise Pavilion Fern Barrow Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH     T: +44 (0) 8456 440 331 F: +44 (0) 8456 440 332 M: +44 (0) 7974 249 494 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.quostar.com     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rivera, Ada Sent: 06 June 2006 12:51 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs   We have a single domain forest with about 7,000 users. Currently we 8 AD regional sites and one HQ AD site. The regional sites each have a DC serving their local regional area and there are multiple DCs in our HQ site. The environment is currently running Windows 2000 SP4 and we are looking to upgrade our DCs to W2K3. The direction from management is that we will put all of our domain controllers on VM Ware when we upgrade the DCs to W2K3. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Good or Bad idea?