Generally speaking folks tend to draw the line at PII 400 with 256 MB of RAM
or thereabouts for DCs. I think that you don't need a gig of RAM, unless
you have a huge org. Your first DC will have all of the FSMO roles so it
really should be a bit beefier, unless you want to shuffle things around.
Hardware RAID is a MUST for DCs, depending on the size of your org your RAID
config would vary.
AD is your chance to combine domains, not split, unless you have a REALLY
compelling reason, you should use OUs to divide stuff.
Kevin
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Kevin Flanagan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard McClary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: W2K DC requirements
Our current setup has 2 DC's (NT4). The rest of our network is pretty much
all W2K Pro desktops and 5 W2K stand-alone servers.
Our DC's are both Dell PE-2100, single Pentium Pro 200, 256 Mb
RAM. (Unfortunately, this maxes out their RAM capacity.) It is our
concern with these servers that is delaying our conversion to full native
mode W2K.
We have already been told to get a "real" server as a first CD for
AD. (Dual processors, a gig of RAM, RAID 1.) Are the PE-2100's adequate
as additional DC's? (Disk space is not currently an issue.)
Further complications - we plan to split our domain into two separate
domains within a single domain tree. Do we still -given that we acquire
one new dual-processor gigabyte machine- have adequate hardware? TIA!
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