= Is there still a use case for bare metal servers? =
Got into a debate with a colleague recently about this. Barring special hardware needs I don't see a scenario where bare metal servers are an improvement over virtualized. What do the Reddit sysadmins say?
EDIT: So I guess I sould have also included hypervisors as an exception I get that. Seems like the majority of use cases are performance related. I guess virtualual machine overhead is still too high!
This bit us in the rear end a few months ago.
Failover Cluster Manager
*requires* AD to be functional, as far as I'm aware.
We had a storage problem that knocked a cluster offline. After we fixed the storage issue, we couldn't reconnect to the cluster because the DCs were running on the cluster and that meant AD was effed
Had to use local admin credentials to connect to one of the hosts, then import-vm to get a single DC running, then was able to connect to the Failover Cluster, then was able to fire up the rest of the VMs.
Was a total mess.
I see posts on here now and then with people going on about how that's an old requirement, no longer needed, you can virtualize all your DCs, etc etc etc.
My answer to that is that it's crazy easy and cheap to have a physical DC. Just one. Somewhere secure and reliable. Maybe you'll never need it, hopefully you don't, but it's one of those things that has so little downside. Just do it and move on.
at our site I have an old 2 GB itx server running ad on 128GB ssd justwaiting for the day to get called to the majors I call him Rudy
And we chant his name when we need things to go right at the center. httpsyoutu.be/D4ZAyiEeocY?t=284
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