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Frosty555<br />
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Thanks for this input. All good points.<br />
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Yes host OS will be solely dedicated to running Hyper-V<br />
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Good point on the virtual machines. We will be running 4 seperate VMs - DC, Exchange, SQL and File Server<br />
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Dell PE T620 Server is fairly beefy....<br />
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- 2 onboard NICs and a 4-port PCI NIC (to be used for the 4 VMs)<br />
- 128 GB of memory<br />
- Dual Intel Xeon E5-2609 2.40GHz,10M Cache, 6.4GT/s QPI, procs<br />
- PERC H710p controller<br />
- 600GB 15K RPM SAS 6Gbps 3.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive (quantity = 4, raid 5)
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Frosty555

Thanks for this input. All good points.

Yes host OS will be solely dedicated to running Hyper-V

Good point on the virtual machines. We will be running 4 seperate VMs - DC, Exchange, SQL and File Server

Dell PE T620 Server is fairly beefy....

- 2 onboard NICs and a 4-port PCI NIC (to be used for the 4 VMs)
- 128 GB of memory
- Dual Intel Xeon E5-2609 2.40GHz,10M Cache, 6.4GT/s QPI, procs
- PERC H710p controller
- 600GB 15K RPM SAS 6Gbps 3.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive (quantity = 4, raid 5)

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I know that it is never good practice to house a MS Exchange environment and MS SQL environment on the same physical server when the setup is a 'traditional; Windows Server setup. However I am trying to see if the same applies when housed on a virtual environment.<br />
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To be specific, the host environment will be a Windows 2012 host. On this host will be separate virtual machines. One virtual machine running MS Exchange and another virtual machine running MS SQL. In general is this an ok practice? Ideally might there be reference link and/or kb articles that help to clarify if this sort of setup is ok?
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I know that it is never good practice to house a MS Exchange environment and MS SQL environment on the same physical server when the setup is a 'traditional; Windows Server setup. However I am trying to see if the same applies when housed on a virtual environment.

To be specific, the host environment will be a Windows 2012 host. On this host will be separate virtual machines. One virtual machine running MS Exchange and another virtual machine running MS SQL. In general is this an ok practice? Ideally might there be reference link and/or kb articles that help to clarify if this sort of setup is ok?

Windows 2012 hosting virtual boxes for Exchange and SQL

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

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.

Exchange

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.