I am looking for a document that will give me some suggested Hyper-v supported and recommended server configuration. Recently our company rolled out two Hyper-V servers. The host system is configured to be the Domain Controller.
One server was configured to be a Host Server Domain Controller and a virtual server Exchange server. The Exchange server failed three times. The host domain Controller had been put into services and was active. I finally called Microsoft and was told this would not a supported or recommended configuration and it would continue to fail. The technical help I had was very good and he pointed me in the right direction to building it directly on the domain controller. Since the Exchange server had already been built and the scheme to the domain controller had been extended this was horrendous but it worked. "Thank you Microsoft technical team."
The second Hyper-V server is setup the same the host server is the DC. The current virtual server is a SQL server. This seems to be working. We had some issues at first with network connections but I made some DNS entries and it seems to be stable now. This system is to have an Exchange host added to it and I'm worried that it will have the same issues as the first server. I would like to add it directly to the DC as I finally did the first time but I'm worried it will make the SQL server fail.
This is currently in a production environment? Does anyone have any suggestion or can you point me to a good tech document that discusses configurations?
Thank you.
Bonnie Whalon