: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Domain Controllers
A couple of notes:
VS 2005 will not install on an X64 version of windows. If you use a
server with an AMD CPU, install 32 bit windows.
Do not install server 2003 SP1 on the virtuals (the host is ok). It will
slow
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My understanding is that Windows Server 2003 provides full support for
dual core processors and
mond
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Hi Brian,
Out of curio
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I wouldn't ride the DC on the physical hardware and the FP on the VS
install
ks,
Brian Desmond
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My understandin
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Thanks Aric, great link! I'd seen the older BOG (2004) but this latest
one I've missed.
The
he end-users...
Regards,
Aric Bernard
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It'd be interesting to hear what sol
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It'd be interesting to hear what solutions are in place in larger
enterprise environments (for small remote s
s very good to hear. I also appreciate the tips.
JJ
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We run multiple DC&
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hehe - single DC - must have overread that - I would have
called that to be a problem in itself ;-)
But then again
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hehe - single DC - must have overread that - I would have
called that to be a problem in itself
ugust 05, 2005 3:36
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Virtual Domain Controllers
Could
you just do the file/print on the DC? In a small environment you could
probably get away with it.
Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication
Services IT | Information
Technol
ather static rgd. new objects in AD ;-)
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joeSent: Sonntag, 7. August 2005 00:43To:
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Well since it is a single domain and a single DC I would
say he really do
oSent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 5:47 PMTo:
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> Since it's a single domain server I just take
ghost snapshots of the domain and then backup the files
not really a useful approach to backup a DC. Might be
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I run a single DC in a small environment... only about 10
users, and since it's just a single server office, and single DC domain..
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Controllers
I run a single DC in a small environment... only about 10
users, and since it's just a single server office, and single DC domain... I
just run everything on the domain controller. Domain, DNS, File, Print,
and Accounting Software on the same s
iday, August 05, 2005 3:36
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Virtual Domain Controllers
Could
you just do the file/print on the DC? In a small environment you could
probably get away with it.
Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication
Services IT | Informat
gust 05, 2005 7:11 PMTo:
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Thanks, Al.
Given all the rants, er, discussions, about single
purpose servers (thanks, Joe), I'd like to not do that. The sites (~18 of
them) range in size from 20 to 200 users. Consistency is good,
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Thanks, Al.
Given all the rants, er, discussions, about single
purpose servers (thanks, Joe), I'd like to not do t
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Could
you just do the file/print on the DC? In a small environment you could
probably get away with it.
Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and
Title: Virtual Domain Controllers
My experience (and you’ll want to
listen to others’ as well, of course) is that you’ll be in pretty
good shape. Don’t even give yourself the CHANCE of using snapshots…
“rolling back” is the main issue (as it will hose replication and
new objects) and is th
Title: Virtual Domain Controllers
Could
you just do the file/print on the DC? In a small environment you could
probably get away with it.
Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication
Services IT | Information
Technology Agilent
Technologies (719) 590-2639;
Telnet 590-2639 http://a
No MS OS is supported on VMWARE unless you have a Premier contract and then
it is only best effort.
See http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/897615
Any mechanism to roll back the DCs disk in time is dangerous and would need
to be strictly controlled. It could definitely cause significant forest
han
using hardware.
Other than that, it's been working great.
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Geary, Simon
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:53 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Domain Controllers
There is a whi
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GarySent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:27 AMTo:
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Controllers
We
have a 9 site, 25000 user active directory running on 14 Windows 2000
DCs. We recently converted our last DC to a VM (ES
's been working great.
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Geary, Simon
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There is a white paper about this, it is supported under som
ubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Domain
Controllers
There is a white paper about
this, it is supported under some strict limitations.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=64DB845D-F7A3-4209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en
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There is a white paper about this, it is supported under some strict
limitations.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=64DB845D-F7A3-4209-8ED2-E261A117FC6B&displaylang=en
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Regards
Jon
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Hi Chris,
There w
Hi Chris,
There was a rather lenghty (but extremely interesting) discussion about
this subject a few weeks ago on this list. May I suggest that you have a
look at the archive
(http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/) for more
info?
Cheers!
Francis
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Fro
I haven't deployed virtual DCs and always shy away from this concept,
personally.
1. Management tools of virtual machines still appear to be immature (IMHO).
i.e. how would you manage / patch / configure / administer all machines in a
uniform, centralised fashion, regardless of physical/virtual
We're running a couple of DCs on ESX, and others on physical hardware.
So far we haven't run into any problems.
You'll definitely want to watch performance to make sure that the
clients are getting adequate response from the DCs. Of course, that
applies to any DC and not just virtuals.
IIRC, Micr
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