We recently purchased two new servers from Dell. We are planning entirely new Virtulized environment with HyperV 2012 with Replica, live Migration and clustering. Both server having 128 GB RAM and we have SAN to store VM’s Data.
We need VM for DC, Exchange, DNS, App Servers-3,
There are few things I have in mind
Do I keep 2 DC’s each on one host?
Do I keep host servers on domain, But if there is some problem in DC - which is on VM . A domain controller in the virtual machines will not be helpful, since the hosts will not be able to authenticate with these DCs if they are not yet started. Plz advise
Do I install Exchange 2010 first before promoting one of them to domain controller? What is recommended?
Do I install Domain services without creating DNS server role?
Basically, what steps do I take a planning. Please advise.
I would appreciate recommendations with any help!
Thanks