RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Glen Johnson
Last one. Just found the power settings on the Dell servers. It is in the password area. Scroll down to the bottom. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Just a followup. I looked aro

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread N Parr
oval for a dedicated genset for the server room. If you think for a bit it's not hard to dream up a plausible perfect storm. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC'

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Glen Johnson
15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's I can vouch for having a physical dc, dns and dhcp. We lost power last Thursday night, and when it was restored 3 days later, exchange, several file servers and other stuff needed a reboot as they came up before the DC was up. N

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Hyper-V 2.0 does not allow the clusters to initialize without AD. :P From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Hyper-V 2.0 also does this, at least the delay period for each VM. I have DC

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Glen Johnson
e the servers to not come back on after a power failure. Hopefully it is in the bios. Any recommendations? We use TrippLite UPS's and no backup generator. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread David Lum
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's That is correct (you can have redundant DHCP without splitting the pool in Windows Server 2012). Hyper-V 3.0 also allows you to specify critical VMs that must start first, with X delay before starting other VMs, and allow Hype

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Mike Hoffman
since then. Mike From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: 22 January 2013 16:47 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DC's and VM's I think it depends on your infrastructure. If you have components (firewalls, routers, switches, NAS, SAN, etc.) that rely o

Re: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I think it depends on your infrastructure. If you have components (firewalls, routers, switches, NAS, SAN, etc.) that rely on AD, then I would still keep at least one physical around, possibly (2) at each site, depending on the size of your environment. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Arc

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
[mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Speaking from experience DHCP is also nice to have on physical. Say you have to power the entire facility down for one reason or another, your hosts all have to sta

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread N Parr
? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david...

RE: DC's and VM's

2013-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? "Note: Always have at least one DC