I would tend to agree with Al on this point. I haven't seen
a need for teaming and feel that the more complex device drivers could actually
put you in a position of failure and watch out for the times where someone
accidently misconfigures something and you start getting really odd inconsistent
network issues like the DC network just dropping randomly occasionally when it
gets busy.
Possibly with more and more deployment of x64 DCs the NIC
will become more likely to be a bottleneck but I haven't seen that so far
and as for failure rates of NICs and network cables, they have been very low in
my experience.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers
I've not had good luck with teaming and I've yet to see much benefit.
Saying that, I can see where teaming in a failover method might have some
benefits for other types of servers. Due to the way AD is deployed (fabric
vs. cluster or single instance) I see no point in making anything complex when
it comes to a domain controller. I view teaming as one more piece of
software to configure (and potentially mess up) and one more thing in my
troubleshooting list if something goes amiss.
On 7/12/06, Freddy
HARTONO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Don't mean to hijack this thread but on a similar note - whats the
downside for installing DCs with Adapter Teaming?
All I know is that when adapter teaming is enabled, setting up WINS
service will pops and error message (which can be ignored)...but
anything else? I've always been a firm believer of one nic and no
teaming...
Any comments?
Thank you and have a splendid day!
Kind Regards,
Freddy Hartono
Group Support Engineer
InternationalSOS Pte Ltd
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Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers
In the year 2006.. I hope we are still not making host file entries on
servers and workstations.... :-)
Peter Johnson wrote:
> You might want to then create entries in the host file on the backup
> server so that you guarantee that the backup server always uses the
> right network connection.
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> Go to the TCP/IP settings of the backup network card, click advanced,
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> *Sent:* 12 July 2006 11:43
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> *Subject:* [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers
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> Hi,
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> First posting to this list but I've lurked quite a while and I've
> been very impressed by the quality of replies by the gurus.
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> My question is regarding the advisability of having multihomed DCs.
> Basically I want
> to run backups over a separate GbE and as my servers have dual inbuilt
> NICs this seems an obvious route to take. I know there are some issues
> with DNS (I have a DNS integrated AD).
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> Would this cause replication problems, etc ?
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