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Once again, thank you Andrew you've given me confidence with this first time set up and it's been very helpful reading all your articles.
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Once again, thank you Andrew you've given me confidence with this first time set up and it's been very helpful reading all your articles.

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Hi <br />
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I am setting up two virtual servers on a VM Vshpere 6 install and would like advice before I spend time configuring them to join my domain.<br />
I have attached a screen print of my configuration so far, the Virtual servers shall be: one 2012 DC and the other is going to be an exchange 2013, I don't mind starting again if its totally wrong.<br />
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vm.docx

Hi 

I am setting up two virtual servers on a VM Vshpere 6 install and would like advice before I spend time configuring them to join my domain.
I have attached a screen print of my configuration so far, the Virtual servers shall be: one 2012 DC and the other is going to be an exchange 2013, I don't mind starting again if its totally wrong.

Virtual setup

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.