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Jerrys52
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Moving Windows 2003 Server to SAN
Active Directory, Windows Server 2003, SAN, PDC, AD
Has anyone out there in a Windows 2003 AD environment successfully moved their operation master server’s (RID, PDC, Infrastructure) operating system to a SAN?
ASKED: Feb 1 2008  2:55 PM GMT
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Not sure what you mean here. A SAN is a Storage Area Network. You can't run AD FSMO roles on a SAN. You can setup your DC to store it's AD database on the SAN which will work fine. And you can run the FSMO roles on a domain controller which is using the SAN for storage also with no problem. But there is no way to run FSMO roles directly on a SAN as a SAN doesn't have an OS which you can make a domain controller.
Last Answered: Feb 1 2008  6:19 PM GMT by Mrdenny   47070 pts.
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Golanego   85 pts.  |   Feb 1 2008  6:42PM GMT

I have created an Active Directory domain on a SAN using VMWARE ESX w/ EMC Clarrion/Celerra ISCSI LUNs.

 

Wrobinson   5610 pts.  |   Feb 3 2008  3:51AM GMT

Servers such as domain controllers are typically not very resoruce intensive and therefore, are often considered good candiates for virtualization from a purely technical perspective; however, it is an unsupported configuration. Microsoft pledges only to provide commercially reasonable support for its products running on non-Microsoft virtualization software. For more information see the official support policy .

 

Wrobinson   5610 pts.  |   Feb 3 2008  3:52AM GMT

Microsoft support policy for non-Microsoft virtualization software <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615</a>

 

Buddyfarr   6835 pts.  |   Feb 14 2008  3:43PM GMT

funny, even though VMWare is the market leader in virtualization leave it to microsoft to drop support for their own product when running on VMSession.

 
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