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There is no such thing as a primary host for Hyper-V. <br />
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Any W2K8/W2K8R2 meeting the physical hardware prereqs has the ability to manage VMs with the Hyper-V role installed.
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There is no such thing as a primary host for Hyper-V.

Any W2K8/W2K8R2 meeting the physical hardware prereqs has the ability to manage VMs with the Hyper-V role installed.

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not much experience with hyper V but regardless if its a DC and GC, should it not be the primary server ?
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not much experience with hyper V but regardless if its a DC and GC, should it not be the primary server ?

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As for DCs, the concept of primary and secondary long exists with W2K3.<br />
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If you want verify role holders, you can run the following command from any DC:<br />
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netdom query fsmo
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As for DCs, the concept of primary and secondary long exists with W2K3.

If you want verify role holders, you can run the following command from any DC:

netdom query fsmo

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Hyper V usually runs on the physical server.<br />
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From there it should have been set up where you have multiple VMs running inside the Hyper V. As a normal rule you usually do not have any services running on the physical server that you have Hyper V running on.
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Hyper V usually runs on the physical server.

From there it should have been set up where you have multiple VMs running inside the Hyper V. As a normal rule you usually do not have any services running on the physical server that you have Hyper V running on.

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Hello,<br />
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I inherited a test lab where the last IT admin built a Hyper-V environment. I have &nbsp;two Windows 2003 servers which are in a work group and then one host a primary DC, GC &amp;&nbsp;DNS all via virtual and the second host Exchange 2003 (SP2) virtual in the same domain. How can I tell which was the first server that is the primary &nbsp;host for the hyper-v environment. Sorry I have not dealt a lot with Hyper-V
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Hello,

I inherited a test lab where the last IT admin built a Hyper-V environment. I have  two Windows 2003 servers which are in a work group and then one host a primary DC, GC & DNS all via virtual and the second host Exchange 2003 (SP2) virtual in the same domain. How can I tell which was the first server that is the primary  host for the hyper-v environment. Sorry I have not dealt a lot with Hyper-V

Exchange 2003

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

The Microsoft Legacy Operating System topic includes legacy versions of Microsoft operating systems prior to Windows 2000: All versions of MS-DOS and other versions developed for specific manufacturers and Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions, and Windows Mobile.

Microsoft Legacy OS

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.