Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Virtualized environment requirements

Today, virtualization solutions allow organizations to build their own private cloud or use public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. AD DS 2016 supports both scenarios. If it's a private cloud, it will allow you to have more control over resource allocation, but in the public cloud, this will depend on the subscription and the amount the organization is capable of spending.

The minimum requirements for a virtualized environment are as follows:

• 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
• 2 GB RAM
• Virtual SCSI storage controller
• 32 GB of free space
• 1 x virtual network adapter

Depending on your virtualization service provider, there will be specific guidelines for virtualized domain controllers. Always ...