We're a bit smaller in that we've got about 8 sites total, but our WAN design has driven what I think is an interesting system.
We have a hub/spoke model for the WAN, where our larger sites (the ones which also house DC's and Exchange) are interconnected by an ATM cloud - giving us what amounts to a full mesh WAN between these sites. Because of that, I chose to use a single site link for all meshed sites - since they are all 1 WAN hop away - and that hop is over a relatively fat pipe.[1] The spoke sites are WAN linked back to a single hub office, and to date have been part of the same site as the hub office. From my initial read of Gil's article a few months back, I'm considering reengineering that to be separate sites, but I've not had the time to properly address that. Our European operations are treated like a spoke site from our Atlanta hub, which does result in a potential lag of 30 minutes, depending on where the changes are made. That's acceptable for the most part because we have a local resource in the European office which houses the DCs. Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. [1] 3mbps CIR/6mpbs burst ATM ports. Plus fully meshed firewall to firewall VPN failover. We're a bit dependent on our internal network. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites and Site Link Naming Conventions > > > Renames are fine. > > I don't see a point in the link speed in the name, you could put it in > the comments so it is still available. > > Our naming standard goes something like this > > > Hub Sites > NA (Americas - located in North America) > AP (Asia Pacific) > EU (Europe) > > Hub Sites dedicated to Exchange > NAEXCH > APEXCH > EUEXCH > > Remote Sites > B<building#> so like B56345 > > Then the links all look like > > Hubsite Name - Remote Site (or hub site - hub site for the big > main hub interconnections) > > NA-B56345 > NA-NAEXCH > NA-EU > EU-AP > NA-AP > > Etc. > > I have no site link bridges. Simple 3 hub and spokes. > > > Cool thing is now with my site scripts when I create a site I specify > parameters like > > Createsite DC sitename hub [metric if not default WAN] > > Ex: > > Createsite domaincontroller1 B45678 NA > > >From that it knows the domain controller to work on (I like > to target my > creates); what site to build, what two sites should be in the > site link > and what the site link name should be and what the metric should be if > the default isn't good enough (it always is for me as I have > a 3 hub hub > and spoke). > > So I would have the following objects after that > > Site Object B45678 > Site Link Object NA-B45678 with NA and B45678 sites in it. > > > So I've shown mine... Who else wants to share? > > > joe > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Sites and Site Link Naming Conventions > > > Todd's post was very timely as I was going to post this > question tonight > > anyway. We're in the initial design phase for a potentially large AD > environment (it'll start small with maybe 3 sites and a <10 > DC's total, > but > could eventually grow to 700 sites, each with a DC). > > I'm curious what others have done for their naming > conventions when it > comes to Sites and Site Links (and Site Link Bridges, > apparently.) Does > it > make sense to include the link speed in the name? If so, > does having to > > rename links in the future (because of upgrades or whatnot) > work fine or > > should that be avoided? > > > David > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
