Vista - Host as member of AD?

Is it supported to have the host joined to a domain when the AD is on a
child vm? Originally, I had no plans to join the host to the domain but we
are looking at Microsoft's Data Protection Manager, which requires the
server to be a member of a domain. Our environment is a single physical
server running Windows 2008 with Hyper-V with a 2008 DC as a child.

thanks,

If you do join the host to the domain, disable Time Sync for all VM domain
members.

---GNH


"CourtK" <noreply@newsgroup> wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:08:02 -0700, "CourtK" <noreply@newsgroup>
wrote:
No, it's not supported and is actually recommended not to do this
unless you have another physical AD controller.

You can run into troubles with your host being on the AD when there is
no way to validate the AD login.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

Thanks for the response. Does Microsoft have documentation saying this? My
boss would rather see this in writing. I can't find documentation
supporting or refuting this anywhere and I see other posts on technet forums
that suggest otherwise.

-courtk

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On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:47:43 -0700, "CourtK" <noreply@newsgroup>
wrote:You can start by thinking along yourself:
1) You start a server (your virtualization host) that belongs to an AD
domain managed by a PDC, which is your guest
2) The server needs to authenticate with AD
3) The AD parent server (the guest) is not running
4) Authentication fails (of course)

So now the server runs without authentication (at best).

5) Now you want to log on to manage the server (to start the guest)
6) So you are asked for your credentials
7) These are now checked against AD, but PDC is not running so it
fails
8) You are refused login because you cannot be verified

==> Deadlock!

Not so hard to get, right?

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

How about this one.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...99(WS.10).aspx



"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@newsgroup> wrote in message
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9) Cached credentials
10) Log on locally
11) Setup VM's to start automatically

I know there are ways to get this to work but I just needed the MS docs to
say whether it was supported or not.

-courtk

"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Yes, there are workarounds but they are not supported. If something goes
wrong, you are on your own. Spell that out to your boss.

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