Some Hyper-V help pls

[Over Clocker]

Hi guys, we've got a hyper-v setup in our office, but it's quite a bad setup for a number of reasons.

The main one is the host is running a lot of other roles, because it is a domain controller, DNS, DHCP etc etc. I'm just in the middle of setting up another virtual machine, which I will promote as a DC, move roles, and then demote the current DC.

Few questions ... is it ok to share one virtual network card between 3 or 4 virtual machines? I have one physical card for the host, and one for the virtual machines.

Virtual disks... currently I have all the vhd's on one physical RAID 5 partition. Is that ok, or should I really be using the physical disks features. Also, all the VHDs show in Hyper-V as being under the IDE controller, is this ok, or does it make for slow disk access?

Thanks,

Mal

 

[Over Clocker]

Thanks a lot guys. I'm on my way to getting this sorted. I'm bringing up another DC today, 2008 R2, and will then move roles over. Question is, Host is 2008 RTM, guest is 2008 R2, and for some reason, on the R2 system, I am not getting any network access on the controller on the guests. I can ping the host, and get an IPv6 reply, but nothing else, no IPv4 address. I cannot ping the guests. Guests on 2008 RTM are all working fine though.

Any ideas?!

 

[Over Clocker]

Hi Lanz,

Many thanks, that worked fine!