I have one client with two Hyper-V hosts and one is domain-joined and the other is workgroup - mostly because I burned myself once and couldn't remember the local credentials on a VM host that had a DC on it. Now I always log in to the hosts with local creds weather it's domain-joined or not.
My other Hyper-V host is workgroup. For transferring I simply copy the VHD's and re-create the VM on the 2nd host. Obviously not a high-availability solution, but it reduces the attack surface. Probably makes more sense to have them domain-joined, but I just treat 'em as containers for servers. Think fancy blade center and that's how I treat the Hyper-V hosts. OTOH I think System Center VM manager requires domain joined (or used to?). Dave From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 5:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMM/Hyper-V question Curious if anyone out there is keeping their Hyper-V hosts in a perimeter network. Or are most people domain joining them. My initial thought was to have them all in a perimeter network with no domain, but with VMM inside the domain. Finding some limitations to this configuration. Specifically in regards to the libraries. you can't transfer VM's from a host in a perimeter network to a library on the VMM server in the domain. Can't see thumbnails either, but that seems minor in comparison. Thanks Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com<mailto:> [cid:image001.jpg@01CD58E3.A8A09890] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com<http://www.guardianlife.com/> ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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