Comments on: Feedback – Virtualized Domain Controllers (Part One) http://www.activedirectoryexpert.com/2007/12/06/feedback-%e2%80%93-virtualized-domain-controllers-part-one/ Active Directory: Management, Scripting, Best Practices, Resources Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:05:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dain http://www.activedirectoryexpert.com/2007/12/06/feedback-%e2%80%93-virtualized-domain-controllers-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Dain Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:29:10 +0000 http://www.activedirectoryexpert.com/?p=18#comment-23 What version of VMWare were they running. We've had resources problems (with application servers, we do not run our AD servers on VM's) but with the resource reallocation available via VMWare infrastructure they should have been able to create resource pools and allocate what was needed to the DC's. This is assuming they were running a recent version of ESX server. What where the physical hosts hardware specs? Did they have HA enabled? These would be good indicators of whether or not they should have been virtualizing those servers. I would see no problems running some of the DC's in a VM as long as the resources where there. What version of VMWare were they running. We’ve had resources problems (with application servers, we do not run our AD servers on VM’s) but with the resource reallocation available via VMWare infrastructure they should have been able to create resource pools and allocate what was needed to the DC’s. This is assuming they were running a recent version of ESX server. What where the physical hosts hardware specs? Did they have HA enabled? These would be good indicators of whether or not they should have been virtualizing those servers.

I would see no problems running some of the DC’s in a VM as long as the resources where there.

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