DC/Exchange/SQL on the same server

[richard1032]

My boss has created a 2008 R2 Enterprise Domain controller with Exchange 2010 on and has now asked me to install SQL 2008 Server on it also. This screams out disaster to me but I wondered if anyone else has done anything crazy like this in the past and actually got it working? The hardware is more than capable and there is only around 20 - 30 users that will be using it.

 

[richard1032]

Hardware wise it should be more than capable and it will be under little load with the mailboxes not being large, databases are small etc etc so on the hardware side I have no concerns at all. The thing that concerns me is running SQL Server and Exchange on a DC. I like your hyper v idea however.

 

[richard1032]

I just looked at the server he has bought.

It is a Proliant DL380 G6
2x Xeon X5550
12GB RAM
After raid there is around 1TB of space

The server will only be used for the 20 - 30 people on there VLan with no public facing web sites. From the little knowledge I have they are are not heavy users. If this was me personally I would not have done it this way but as the kit is already purchased i guess we will go with it and see what happens.

Cheers for all the input guys