Characterizing Your Active Directory Workload
In general, the Active Directory workload is an excellent candidate for virtualization and should not pose much of a challenge for most corporations. That said, you will need to be mindful of your current Active Directory deployment and monitor the replication traffic, server resource utilization, and additional services that are included as part of Active Directory. Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) if deployed, Domain Name Service (DNS), and global catalog (GC) servers for Exchange Server can place extra demands on server resources.
In addition, you must ensure that your current Active Directory forest is servicing clients in an accurate and timely manner. Failure to properly characterize your ...
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