Well, I don't think the driving factor is the size of the IT operation
in terms of # DC's necessarily.
In my small environment (3 x DC, 1 x Exchange, 2 x Fileserver, 1 x
Sharepoint), the factors are
My "client" facing network is 100 Mbs Ethernet
Major vendor's servers have come with inbuilt dual GbE NICs for
the last 3+ years
GbE switches are now ridiculously cheap
Backup software supports this configuration (some vendors
recommend this config, as noted by other replies)
Uniform configuration, I backup Exchange, file servers, etc
using this configuration.
So I guess you could look at as a "poor man's SAN".
>From my perspective it seems a reasonable thing to do.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Falde
Sent: 12 July 2006 16:59
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers
So how many DC's do you have? What is your DIT size like to warrant
going through all this trouble? Are there other applications that you
need to backup on the DC's that are requiring full backups of all your
DC's. With most environments getting the system state from a DC/GC in
each domain should be enough to allow you to do whatever authoritative
restores that you need. Now if you have other apps that you need to do a
large data backups of then this may be required. Yes you can do
multiple nic's on DC's and quite a few organizations do however it
definitely would not fall under best practices for Domain Controllers.
Kurt Falde
Premier Field Engineer
Northeast Region
Microsoft Corporation
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