In the previous sections of this chapter, I explained how we can design the Active Directory logical topology. The next step is to design the physical topology of the Active Directory design.
Designing the physical topology of Active Directory
Physical or virtual domain controllers
Most of the workloads we have in modern infrastructures are virtualized. Domain controllers can also be virtualized, but based on the virtualization vendor, the best practices will be different. Therefore, if you plan to deploy virtual domain controllers, refer to your software vendor and find out what the recommendations for virtual domain controllers are. The guidelines in this section will focus on the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platform...
