IMO vmware is great for dev/stage/cit/test/dr and good for some prod applications but I wouldn't be running my AD purely on VM's. AD is critically dependant upon time and some VM configurations interfere with the system clock, thereby upsetting the kbt timestamps.
Referring specifically to VMware's products; ESX works but GSX is uselss for prod (poor resourcing). In addition, some applications do behave differently inside a VM (despite what the vendors say), and there are numerous cases where support staff have wasted hours troubleshooting a problem only to discover it was a VM problem. Do the sums on ESX and it could be cheaper to own a server. Rgds, Tim On 6/6/06, Rivera, Ada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
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