Absolutely, vmotion is a beautiful thing but the OP only has one host (unless I missed something) so a simple physical DC would be the first thing I did to lower the risk in his situation. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud
----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thu Mar 26 14:38:02 2009 Subject: RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server Even in the same datacenter. It's no different having two VM hosts running your DCs than 2 DCs in the same place. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server Large scale operations can stretch HA across different locations, most of us can't afford or justify this. A dedicated small box tucked away somewhere secure is a great way to do this...... John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thu Mar 26 14:16:07 2009 Subject: RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server I've worked with some large scale customers who have run the whole thing on VM - it's not a hard and fast requirement to have one physical box "just because". Obviously these customers have had VM environments with a level of redundancy built in to them. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server You should have one physical Domain Controller for authentication and name resolution uncase something goes bump in the night in your virtual environment. Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:40:14 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server Letting users into the DataCenter would qualify correct? Should there not be some fail safe to remove the users and destroy the DataCenter after the contamination event? Joking here well maybe... Jon On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Rodriguez <drod...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > What are the pros and cons of putting both your PDC and 2nd DC in > seperate > > Virtual environments on the same box? > > The only pro I can think of would be, if you want to halt all IT > operations, you only have to kill one box... > > (I'm being facetious here, but on occasion such a scenario does come > up. For example, think of a military forward command post in hostile > territory. 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