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AD DC & SQL ALONGSIDE Hyper-V

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 09/22/2009
From: Mark Holland
Message:

I am setting up a Hyper-V server at home as purely a test bed to try out
various new products such as Exchange / SCCM / SCOM.....the list goes on.

For most products an Active Directory and a SQL database are a pre-requisite.

I am not worried about high availbility.

The question is, does it make sense to install AD & SQL on the host
operating system running alongside Hyper-V as apposed to wasting the
resources for a guest O/S with these services contained within it.

Any thoughts?

Many Thanks

Mark

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Re: AD DC & SQL ALONGSIDE Hyper-V

Sent: 09/22/2009
From: "Geoff N. Hiten" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Personally, I would (and did) build them in a guest VM.

If for no other reason than you don't mess up the base OS and can "reset"
any time you want.

Besides, AD and SQL don't play well together on the same OSE (Operating
System Environment).

--
Geoff N. Hiten
Principal SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP

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>I am setting up a Hyper-V server at home as purely a test bed to try out
> various new products such as Exchange / SCCM / SCOM.....the list goes on.
>
> For most products an Active Directory and a SQL database are a
> pre-requisite.
>
> I am not worried about high availbility.
>
> The question is, does it make sense to install AD & SQL on the host
> operating system running alongside Hyper-V as apposed to wasting the
> resources for a guest O/S with these services contained within it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mark

Re: AD DC & SQL ALONGSIDE Hyper-V

Sent: 09/22/2009
From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I'm with Geoff on this. Build a small VM for AD (a simple Server Core VM is
perfect for this, and takes very little resources.) Then a separate VM for
SQL. Since this is a purely test environment, you'll not need huge resources
for the SQL VM, but keeping it separate will be a lot cleaner and make
migration to production (should that ever be desireable) much easier. And by
keeping the hyper-v parent "clean", you make it easy to reset and start
over, or upgrade to a newer version, etc.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

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