Oh , yes it may work yeah . Maybe it ' s just severely handicapped or something . Not completely dead but almost <| sep |> Great to see ! <| sep |> Did you get it via StreetPass , I gave it to a kid I was babysitting last week that way <| sep |> HyperV is great but AD should not be running on the HyperV host . HyperV should be the only role . Plus if you run any roll on the physical box you lose your 2 for V M s v r e a s o n s n o t t o m a k e hypervadomaincontrollerAs for your redundancy this gets supper expensive with licensing on Windows Servers . If you replicate any machines they need a new additional license on the replica server . Exchange and AD do not support replication but rather multiple AD servers for AD replication , and multiple Exchange servers in a DAG group . File server can be redundant with DFS but there are problems with some applications . I think good backups with Veeam to a spare server ebay is better than replicating the servers .