[CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

On Sep 14, 2019, at 11:23, miguel medalha <medalist at sapo.pt> wrote:
> I hope that someone here can give some advice on the following:
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> I have a Samba based Active Directory. A CentOS 7.6 machine runs as a file server and hosts the Windows user profiles for all the Windows workstations.
> 
> Now management has decided that they need a Windows server for a couple of administrative applications, which need MS SQL Server. That would be the only role of this Windows. Since the above mentioned server has enough resources (2x Quad Core Xeon 2.66 GHz with HT and 48 GB of RAM, a dual port 10 Gb NIC) I thought of making it a host for a Windows virtual machine using KVM. Given the resources and current setup we have, at the moment it wouldn't be practical to implement both servers as VMs on top of a bare metal hypervisor.
> 
> According to your experience, is there any motive why I shouldn't use such a setup?

Not sure if it works for you, but there’s an SQL server that runs on Linux. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-2017
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Jonathan Billings