I am budding off this thread from the
dream network thread so I can get advice and comments on my new project. As suggested by Sandeep, virtualization is the wave of the future (present?). It looks like slater is already doing it, and GoBruins has already experimented. The Replica piece is my goal.
I am wading into the virtualization pool for the first time so would love some guidance from experts. So here it goes.
Current State: IBM x3200 M3 Xeon Quad-Core 2.40GHz 1333 MHz RAM 8GB 4X1TB running as 2 RAID-1, running SBS 2008 as host to AC, Exchange, SharPoint
Future State: above hardware running Windows Server 2012, virtual Hyper V machine running SBS 2008 for above; duplicate machine (which I have) running same, synchronized to main machine with Replica.
Since I already have the spare hardware, I can get started. I intend to download Windows 2012 and set it up. I have done some reading, primarily on Technet and MVA. However, I have some remaining question that have not been answered.
The first question is whether I can just restore from the current setup's backup to the new virtual machine, or do I have to set up a new SBS 2008?
The second question is the network configuration. I gather that the working network is going to be controlled by the main virtual machine. Assuming that I don't move the replica machine off site, can the replica machine be in the same domain? Does it matter?
Thank you.
