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Eddy
Asked: 2011-09-28 01:16:44 +0800 CST

Hyper-V Scenario

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I am planning to create a hyper-v environment for testing, I need to have something similar to the following:

Group 1

DC 1
WSUS 1
App Server 1
AV Server 1
Client xp 1
client 7 1

Group 2

DC 2
WSUS 2
App Server 2
AV Server 2
Client xp 2
client 7 2

Group 3

DC 3
WSUS 3
App Server 3
AV Server 3
Client xp 3
client 7 3

When I need to use it it will run by group , no need to run 2 computer groups at the same time.

can this be done, and if I have a resources that will run a single group only can it be used to do the set up above, since they will not run at the same time.

virtualization hyper-v

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It looks feasible and you've thought through naming conventions which is where things could go wrong otherwise. You'll need to consider the DCs in a couple of scenarios:

    1. Do you intend the DCs to belong to the same domain, and is this domain going to be the same as your host uses? This would really simplify your scenario, you would simply ensure that in each group the servers and clients have each groups DC IP addess as their preferred DNS server.

    2. If you're having each of your DCs govern different domains on which a groups servers and clients reside then this gets trickier, you would need to create a trust between each one and your host domain.

    Bear in mind that WSUS usually takes a day or two to start working and updating, so you might want to consider that within your test scenario. I can't see any reason why your scenario wouldn't work. As long as you have the disk resources to contain 18 servers/clients as VMs and enough RAM and CPU to fire up 6 at a time.

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