I'd like to make a thread about how people are setting up/using their VMs. There's plenty of information out there in various threads but some of it isn't spelled out well for someone new to this, like me, who is just getting into the server side of the equation and does not have experience setting up things like VM servers, sysprep'ing images, using differencing disks etc.
I've seen various configurations thrown around for how people are creating/managing their VMs. It'd be great if people could give a breakdown of their strategy and how they did it. Not looking for step-by-step but if you could give a good starting point of how you did it or links to how to do it, that'd help a lot.
Trying to keep the "what hardware to buy" questions out of this thread if possible.
Also wondering what people are using for the Server 2008R2 images and client images. Is it the d/l from here;
Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Free 180-Day Trial ? Technet? Other?
Part of the reason I ask is I know the way I'm doing it isn't good and likely causing/going to cause me issues. I d/l'd the VHD from the above link at Microsoft and made copies of it, using those to make new VMs as needed. I've run into SID issues in one of my configurations I was trying (can't remember what it was, maybe adding a second domain to a forest).
Thanks,
Jamie
