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I am not too familiar with MS hyper V. I am not sure if what my assumption/doing is correct. I will indicate step by step what I did. Please feel free to correct my mistake or foresee any potential problem which may arise in the future.
I have installed 2 PHYSICAL servers with MS Server 2012 , let's call it ServerA and ServerB. They are in a workgroup environment
On ServerA, I have installed 2 VIRTUAL machines, which is a domain controller, let's call it AD1 and an Exchange Server 2013.
After that, I joined ServerA into the domain hosted by AD1.
On Server2, I installed 2 virtual machines, which is another domain controller, let's call it AD2 and an application server.
Then I join ServerB into the domain.
Pls advice if setup like this make any sense?
I am not too familiar with MS hyper V. I am not sure if what my assumption/doing is correct. I will indicate step by step what I did. Please feel free to correct my mistake or foresee any potential problem which may arise in the future.
I have installed 2 PHYSICAL servers with MS Server 2012 , let's call it ServerA and ServerB. They are in a workgroup environment
On ServerA, I have installed 2 VIRTUAL machines, which is a domain controller, let's call it AD1 and an Exchange Server 2013.
After that, I joined ServerA into the domain hosted by AD1.
On Server2, I installed 2 virtual machines, which is another domain controller, let's call it AD2 and an application server.
Then I join ServerB into the domain.
Pls advice if setup like this make any sense?
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your setup makes sense ,but one caveat is that you are hosting the ad on the Vm ,its i sperfectly ok for small set up or medium setup ,this configuratiion work perfectly well,
but if you scale UP ,,Up and UP .... the AD in vm becomes a problem
so ,check you usage and decide.
thanks
s.deviprasad
but if you scale UP ,,Up and UP .... the AD in vm becomes a problem
so ,check you usage and decide.
thanks
s.deviprasad
For best practices, it is recommended that you keep at least your primary domain controller as a physical server. Even though, your design makes sense and it should work just fine.
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