Folks,
I'm looking for practical experience from anyone running 'minimal'
hardware configurations for domain controllers in an AD forest supporting
Exchange 2000/5.5.
We are currently very cash strapped but really do need to move on
Exchange 2000 from our current Exchange 5.5 environment. We're spinning
about 70Gb of Exchange data across two servers (50Gb/20Gb). There are about
1000 NT4 domain users in one domain and around 250 in a trusting domain. We
have a serious server configuration we can deploy for Exchange itself to
allow mailbox relocation to Exchange 2000 with recycling of the current
servers as they are freed up. We have been offered several modern desktop
systems which I'm contemplating deploying as domain controllers. The big
argument against doing this would be disk failure intolerance - though we
would software mirror across 2 IDE drives per machine.
Has anyone any experience of this scenario as far as DCs are
concerned? Would you offer any cautions from experience? I should say our
current NT4 PDC is a fairly limited desktop box and the experience on what
is a small domain has been completely OK.
Regards, Roger Mackenzie (Glasgow University)
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