Hello!
I am trying to minimize the amount of server hardware regarding adding more servers to our domain (2008 R2).
We have a quite new and strong (2x 6-core xeon with 24GB RAM) secondary DC server in our 2008 R2 domain. I am trying to come up with a better plan to utilize this machine's resources which was a bit of an overkill for just an AD, DNS and DFS services.
Do you think it would be a good idea to demote that server, erase it, install 2008 R2 in Hyper-V mode and then add the AD service with DNS and DFS in Virtual mode and more (separate) virtual servers for other various purposes - thinking of Remote Desktop Services specifically for now, it can't run on same physical server as AD which is a slight problem as we are not planning on getting any hardware anytime soon.
Can MS Exchange also run on Hyper-V? That would be a plus as well if it could.
Thanks for insights.
I am new to Hyper-V, never tried it before. Also forgot to mention, we use 2008 R2 Standard licenses, not enterprise/datacenter whatever.