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Distributing Server 2008 R2 Roles and Features

I have searched through many books, articles, and the knowledgebase here without finding a viable solution to my problem. The issue I'm having is with deciding what roles and features can be or should be combined together on one Server 2008 R2 installation. For example, I know that if I install DNS, GC, and AD on one server, it should not have any other roles or features installed. Also, I have SQL 2012 on a dedicated server and will not install any other roles on this server. I ran into my issue when considering the Remote Desktop role. I need to have the RD Session Host on one server and the applications I'm planning to distribute installed on the same server. But where should I install the RD Gateway, RD Licensing, and other RD roles? Should they each go on their own separate installation of 2008 R2, or would it be okay to combine these features (and possibly other features) together on one server? I am migrating from SBS2011 because of issues with too many roles and certain roles interfering with others (even though they shouldn't with SBS). Here is a list of everything I need to implement:

Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Domain Services
DHCP Server
DNS Server
Print and Document Services
Remote Desktop Services w/ 1 RemoteApp Application
Web Server (IIS) (for RDS, Exchange, etc.)
SQL 2012
Exchange 2010
VSI-FAX Server
and possibly a few other smaller things I may have forgotten to list. I have two physical servers. They will both be running VMs with Hyper-V and I want to have one as a failover.
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You are basically talking about the placement of Roles/Applications.

Isn't it perfect to balance the Role installations based on how much your hardware can survive?

And also you might need to look at Microsoft Support policy for applications running on Hyper-V.

Thanks!
Sys
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Thanks for the reply Sys. You are correct that the role installations should be balanced, however there are certain roles that should not or can not be installed together. As I stated in the original post, I shouldn't install any other roles on the DNS/AD/GC server. I guess I'm wanting some advice on the best balance of the applications/roles/features I listed. I don't want to have one role per VM as I don't have the hardware resources for that. But maybe over a span of 4-6 VMs (it would probably be closer to 6 since I will have 1 for DNS/AD/GC, 1 for SQL 2012, 1 for Exchange 2010, 1 for RDS and remote applications).

Will any of the roles/features/applications I listed conflict with one another and cannot be installed together? And what roles need to be split between multiple servers (as I stated, I'm not sure if RD Session Host, RD Gateway, and RD Licensing can/should all be on the same server).

I searched for MS support policies concerning applications running in Hyper-V, and all I found was a list of MS applications and whether they can run in a VM or not, which all of the applications I'm running can run inside a VM.
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To start, there will be less than 20 users connecting however that could potentially increase soon, so I would like to have the potential for around 50 users without any strain. By the information you have provided, does this sound like a good configuration?

Server 1
Active Directory
DNS
GC
possibly DHCP?

Server 2
SQL 2012

Server 3
Exchange 2010
Web Server (IIS) (for Exchange only)

Server 4
Remote Desktop Services
Applications for RemoteApp
Web Server (IIS) (for RDS only)
Print and Document Services
VSI-FAX Server
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Thanks for all of your help Sys! I believe I will just make a 5th VM for DHCP and if I need any other roles later on, I can add them onto the DHCP server.
Sure - glad I could help you!

Yes, adding anything on top of DHCP have no issues!

Thanks!
Sys