DAckroyd

is anyone using powergui for doing this? either with QuestAD cmdlets or built in AD stuff for 2k8r2. how do the teachers get on with it?

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I'm sure you are right...

if you don't like the sound of ESXi then try Hyper-V server (R2) as that is free or if you buy a server 2008 licence for the server then you can have hyper-v included in that having unbuntu then vmware then windows is far too many layers

it would be worth considering where your user areas are stored (on DC's, on VMs or using DfS

I think microsofts recommendation is that hyper-v servers is a hyper-v server, nothing more - the thing that they are trying for is a server for each role and your lock you server down as that is the only thing that needs to happen on it (easier to do now with virtual machines and the vm licening they run)

genrally what is mean is having 2+ servers connected to a SAN (or 2) with redundant links so the VM's run off of the san and if one host goes down the second takes on the machine until it feels like going back over it also works as load balancing

there's nothing stopping your virtualising that box a few months/years down the line and having it as an extra host for your vm's

I would happily go virtual on all that lot but leaving a backup DC outside but I would look at more than one host. if you put all your servers onto one host and it goes pop for any reason then you're screwed

VM's moved over... DNS issue somehow - I Know why!! we had an engineer in who yesterday stopped the DNS running on the server my Vcenter points at changed vCenters dns to a different box and all was fine still have a host not showing maycome around sometime soon - can ping IP - may reboot again in a second

ok... not good... any advice welcome... I've got my vcenter updated and the ESX host are at version 4... however I haven't got the tools updated on all of them yesterday and one of the hosts dropped off over night and the hosts didn't migrate to the other host. I have the host that went down up but it's still showing as disconnected. and all servers that were on there are showing disconnected and I cant migrate them manually!

in process of upgrading atm... the VI Client/server upgrade went smoothly and first of the ESX boxes is now upgrading EDIT: Bugger... in the ESX upgrade process I have got a: Edit: Edit: For anyone who gets this error then make sure you have the memory execute thingy enabled in BIOS and also make sure you have VT enabled thanks for everyones help on this one - one host upgraded and happy, one to go

isit worth doing a snapshot of the vcenter server before updating it?

I have a vCenter server as a VM, we've got 2 ESX hosts and they are connected to a san I'll start with the vcenre update and then go onto a Host update - can I update one host and have the HA/vmotion still work or will that only go between the same versions of esx?

any ideas where I download the vCenter Server 4 foundation from? I finnaly found all thevCenter4u1 links but no foundation listed thanks