2.2 – Map Service Dependencies

Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure

• Hardware Consolidation and Standardization
• Test and Development
• Security Control
• take advantage of the many features of VMware Infrastructure, such as disaster recovery and planning, high availability, and optimized resource utilization.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Active Directory With any Windows OS, there are several steps to ensure that
your virtualized Active Directory implementation is a success.These steps include:
1. Controlling clock drift
2. Optimizing network performance
3. Making DNS modifications correctly
4. Replicating database information
5. Providing virtual machine access control
6. Ensuring disaster preparedness and high availability
7. Handling disaster recovery

There are several excellent reasons for virtualizing Windows Active Directory. Virtualization offers the advantages of hardware consolidation, total cost of ownership reduction, physical machine life cycle management, mobility and affordable disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. It also provides a
convenient environment for test and development, as well as isolation and security.