1000 users? You could do that with a workstation, if you needed to. As you said, my only concern would be fault tolerance.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Mackenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Monday, March 04, 2002 08:18 AM > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: ADS DC hardware > Subject: ADS DC hardware > > > 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) > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
