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SBS 2008 - One box or two-in-one?

• Sunday, September 27, 2009 12:39 PMsignal

   
  

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  For some time now I have been trying to justify to my clients the huge jump in TCO from sbs 2003 to SBS 2008 especially when it comes to Premium Edition. When the whole world, including MS, is moving to virtual machines, why would MS bring out a version of SBS that requires two boxes??
  
  You can save yourself some time and learn from my efforts that Hyper-V and Terminal Server CANNOT be run successfully on the main SBS box (see KB articles 957712, 958829 and 968250 for starters) and I come across a few discussions on the merits and demerits of running SQL on the same box but it seems that it can be done.
  
  Does anyone else have this sort of problem and would you agree with the following?:
  
  1) Get a decent box with plently of extra capacity.
  2) Purchase SBS Premium edition if there is even the slightest chance that you night need Hyper-V and/or Terminal Server in future (trust me, you will).
  3) Load the box with the "second/free" Server 2008 license.
  4) Enable Hyper-V and load
                 a) A second (virtual) instance of Server 2008 (permitted under what they call "1+1") where you can install SQL and
                 b) A virtual instance of SBS 2008.
  
  Ok, so that's what I think..... put your minds to it and tell me what can go wrong?
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