From: Robert Comer 

>I'd like to look at it from the views of disaster recovery and
>lessening server creep all in a Windows environment.  Could I put 8
>servers in to 2 physical machines and have them do their current
>chores, like mail, file and print, internet filtering, AD, etc?  For
>example, SurfControl (internet filter) is on a box with two NICs that
>does port monitoring/blocking and it would seem to me it would have to
>be on it's own physical box (but maybe not, just add NICS as
>required), whereas I might be able to virtualize the Domino server
>with a DC that does DNS and A/V server tasks.

Yep, you could do all that and more, though I really wouldn't suggest your
AD to be virtualized. (speaking of the VMWare and Microsoft products, don't
know anything about the other.)

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Bob Comer




On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:19:36 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:31:57 -0400, Rich Gauszka
> wrote:
>
>>It really depends what your trying to do.
>
>As little as possible, preferring retirement to work. 
>
>I'd like to look at it from the views of disaster recovery and
>lessening server creep all in a Windows environment.  Could I put 8
>servers in to 2 physical machines and have them do their current
>chores, like mail, file and print, internet filtering, AD, etc?  For
>example, SurfControl (internet filter) is on a box with two NICs that
>does port monitoring/blocking and it would seem to me it would have to
>be on it's own physical box (but maybe not, just add NICS as
>required), whereas I might be able to virtualize the Domino server
>with a DC that does DNS and A/V server tasks.
>
>- Richard

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