Ok Let me try and post this into the correct forum this time.
Question for everyone, I am in a position now where I can start to build my Hyper-V infrastructure at work to replace the 4 servers that are currently in operation.
Am I better off installing Windows Server 2012, adding them to the current domain and maybe even making my 2 hosts DC's
(so I can provide the network with DHCP and DNS) and then instal the Hyper-V role and building from it that way? Or should I just go with the core install (no gui)?
The reason why I ask is that I have installed the Hyper-V core on one server as a test and I have set the network settings and it wanted to use the DNS servers which are my current physical DC's servers (which obviously won't exist eventually)
My original plan was to build the Hyper-V Infrastructure, build 2 virtual servers and make them DC's (with dhcp and dns) and then I can decommission the 2 physical servers that do this job, but this will mean that the dns settings that I gave the core will be invalid.
My end result is to have a 2 host hyper-v platform, running a bare minimum of 4 servers, I only need 1 sql server, 2 dc's, an application server and a file server.
Just not sure which is better to have the hyper-v core of server 2012 with hyper-v role.