I'd make the %SYSTEMROOT% at least 8GB, mirrored 9GB disks would be good.
I'd never put user data on DCs, unless they are remote office kind of
servers with only a handful of users.
The partitions that you have laid out should be their own physical devices.
I don't know if the RAID card/server you have will permit you to create
these on multiple channels, but you should if you can. If the server has
lots of RAM you don't have to worry about the pagefile use, but the AD
Database and the logs should be on different channels if possible.
I agree with your philosophy of keeping big apps off of domain controllers,
it goes a long way towards achieving system stability.
I have always created servers that did only File and Print, lots of RAM, and
a good RAID controller, they work fine, nice and stable.
The quota tool only measures on a per volume basis, just remember to put
user homedirs on a separate volume than group shared directories or it'll
render the quotas useless.
Good luck,
Kevin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meade, Devin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:46 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Windows 2000 Server recommended partition sizes
>
>
> Group,
>
> We are going through the design phase of a Windows 2000
> Active Directory and need some real world advice. Just about
> everywhere I read, it says to have a separate volume for
> %systemroot%, SYSVOL, Print spool, and any data. We are
> thinking about the following:
>
> 5GB Partition 1 - C drive - %systemroot%
> 2GB Partition 2 - D Drive - SYSVOL and \NTDS
> 2GB Partition 3 - E Drive - Print Spool and any other "log"
> files that we can redirect nGB Partition 4 - F Drive - The
> remainder allocated to user data.
>
> 1. Enabling disk quotas, but not restricting space.
> 2. Use an alert to monitor disk space.
> 3. We have all Dell PowerEdge servers with RAID5 via PERC
> cards 4. If we use dynamic disks we can resize the D: and E:
> drives (but not the
> %systemroot%)
>
> We will have 7 Windows 2000 servers and 2 WinNT 4 servers
> doing various things. SQL server, Exchange server, data,
> Proxy file/print. We have, in the past adopted a philosophy
> of running services on separate servers.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Devin L. Meade, CNE, MCP
> Systems Administrator
> Frankfurt-Short-Bruza
> www.fsb-ae.com <http://www.fsb-ae.com>
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