Installing SCVMM on a VM and use it to manage the hypervisor hosting that VM (for a lab)

Question

I know this would be unacceptable for a production deployment, but I have only one beefy server I can use for lab test\learning.

Here is what I am planning:

Any caveats to this? Performance will be awful, but I'm OK with that for this lab.

Why would this be a problem? – Michael Hampton Sep 02 '14 at 20:06 — Michael Hampton, Sep 02 '14 at 20:06
Why will performance be awful? – MDMarra Sep 02 '14 at 20:50 — MDMarra, Sep 02 '14 at 20:50
Why would this be unacceptable for a production deployment? – joeqwerty Sep 02 '14 at 21:02 — joeqwerty, Sep 02 '14 at 21:02
@joeqwerty probably because if the single physical host. – MDMarra Sep 03 '14 at 12:15 — MDMarra, Sep 03 '14 at 12:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '14 at 20:45

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This is a common configuration (except with multi-host clusters in production).

Carry on.

answered Sep 02 '14 at 20:45

MDMarra

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