All; I'm having a very strange occurrence on my primary site servers. The hierarchy is: 1 Central Site, 3 child Primary sites, and each Primary site has up to 12 Secondary sites. For whatever reasons, the site boundaries of Secondary sites are populating (seemingly automatically) the Boundary object of the parent Primary site. In fact, our Central site has two secondary sites from a whole different continent constantly repopulating the Boundaries object. I delete them from the middle pane in the console, and click Refresh on the actions pane and BAM! they come right back in. The same is happening on two of the child primary sites. The secondary site boundaries continually repopulate the parents Boundary settings. this is causing havoc with site assignment and client deployment. Each of the Secondary sites have their site boundaries set correctly and are not getting the parent boundaries populating in their settings. What's got me concerned is that these issues are being caused by the DB for the primary sites being installed on a clustered virtual SQL server. I know clustering of SQL is supported, but what about a SQL cluster installed on a virtual machine? Is that supported, recommended, advised? Tw of the primary sites are also on virtual machines as well. I don't know that that is the root cause, or just a contributing factor. If anyone can shed some light I'd be greatly appreciative. This is driving me buggy since I can't figure out the reason.

SQL on a VM is supported only if you follow the support guideline for SQL in a VM. Would I recommend it? Only in a test lab, never in production. Will it work, yes. Will you have performance issues? No, but that assumes that everything is setup correctly, which is almost never the case. http://www.enhansoft.com/

Do these boundaries populate at the parent site as belonging to the primary site's sitecode? (Check the sitecode column) If they are listed with the sitecode of your secondary site, then what you are observing is perfectly normal."Everyone is an expert at something" Kim Oppalfens Configmgr expert for lack of any other expertise. http://www.scug.be/blogs/sccm

Garth and Kim; Thanks so much for your answers. Garth: I didn't set up SQL, so I can only presume it was set up correctly for not only SQL on a VM, but a SQL cluster on a VM (not sure aobut why you'd do that given the reasons for using a VM in the first place, but...). Kim: I'll take your word it's normal since the site boundaries are appearing under the Boundary object of the parent with their own site code listed. I've not seen this before, thus my confusion and concern. I'm using IP subnets and ranges since the AD setup here is unreliable and in need of "cleanup". thanks again.

IMO, Just because you can create a VM does mean that is make sense to do it. For example I wouldn’t suggest that SQL, ConfigMgr , Exchange and any other high process task should NOT be turn into a VM. Again, I have no idea why anyone would create a clustered SQL VM that didn’t exist within a lab setup. http://www.enhansoft.com/