[CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

Jonathan Billings
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:01:54 -0000

On Sep 14, 2019, at 11:23, miguel medalha <medalist at sapo.pt>
wrote:
> I hope that someone here can give some advice on the following:
>
> I have a Samba based Active Directory. A CentOS 7.6 machine runs as a file
server and hosts the Windows user profiles for all the Windows workstations.
>
> Now management has decided that they need a Windows server for a couple of
administrative applications, which need MS SQL Server. That would be the only
role of this Windows. Since the above mentioned server has enough resources (2x
Quad Core Xeon 2.66 GHz with HT and 48 GB of RAM, a dual port 10 Gb NIC) I
thought of making it a host for a Windows virtual machine using KVM. Given the
resources and current setup we have, at the moment it wouldn't be practical
to implement both servers as VMs on top of a bare metal hypervisor.
>
> According to your experience, is there any motive why I shouldn't use
such a setup?

Not sure if it works for you, but there?s an SQL server that runs on Linux.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-2017
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Jonathan Billings