Hyper-V and home network server questions

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My home server is currently running W2008 R2 with 3 roles; AD, DHCP and DNS.

I was going to add SQL Server as well but the installation recommended it was not installed on the same server as the DC

What would be the best setup if I were to run Hyper-V?

Have the server not be part of the domain with only the Hyper-V role, then have a separate VM for the DC(+DHCP&DNS) then an additional one for the SQL server?

What would be the minimum hardware requirements for something like that?

Probably overkill for a home setup I know, but I am interested in testing the technology.
 
Hyper-V is OK, I have built 2 in our production environment, one full OS and one Core. I would reccommend a Core setup and don't add it to the domain, use Core Configurator (http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/) to make it easy to setup, has a nice GUI interface for doing network settings etc. Not entirely sure on specs but I can host 3-4 virtual machines (3x2k3 servers and 1 XP client) on my Microserver with 4GB RAM using VMWare, not sure how much more resource hungry Hyper-V is. Also, go download the trial of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), you actually get 1 years usage out of it for free! Great for doing P2Vs and VM/Host management.
 
The configurator is a tool to assist setting up a server installation, or is it specific to virtual machine installs?

cheers
 
As its a home server I wouldn't worry too much about putting SQL server on it as I doubt you'll be stressing the box too much.

I'm running Hyper-V on a ML110 G6 that's currently hosting DC/DNS/CA natively and I'm not seeing any issues.
 
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