Vista - Virtual Domain controller guests on Hyper-V

Any caveats to running Domain controller guests on Hyper-V (Windows 2003
AD)? I have run domain controllers on ESX before without issue but I am new
to Hyper-V and just checking to see if any of you have experienced any
gotchas?

thanks,
Clay

If this is a real domain, do NOT snapshot and roll back. And don't shut down
for an extended period.

It's generally easier to not have your parent partition be a member of the
domain, unless there's a domain controller on a different physical machine.

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"Clay" <clay@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ben Armstrong provided an interesting analysis of the different options:

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...r-dilemma.aspx

Josh

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"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Josh and Charlie. Very useful information. I will be standing up my
hyper-v next week. Plan to run a DC, and WSUS and AV server, and a couple of
web servers initially. I have a good bit of ESX experience from my previous
job but am going with Hyper-V this time for cost and support issues.

thanks much and have a good weekend,
Clay

"Josh Gingras" <gingras@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, Ben's post was a worthwhile read.

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"Josh Gingras" <gingras@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have one of our three DCs as a VM on Hyper-V. After a month of continual
use, we haven't seen a single problem. The VM DC has AD, DNS and DHCP roles.

Tom

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