On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 3 DCs. 1 is physical, 2 are virtual. We use Hyper-V. > The 1 physical DC has 2GB of ram, and we have 1000 PCs. > The two virtual ones have 1194 MBs of ram, and a "BackupDC" > which has 800 megs of ram. The BackupDC is slow to use, but > seems to do the DC jobs just fine.
Thanks. That's good info. I'm sure every domain is different (in particular, I expect it's not really the size of the database, but requests/second (hmmm, I *should* benchmark *that*)), but this at least gives me some clue. > I'm sure Microsoft has a document about server sizing that directly > addresses the memory requirements for a size of a domain > somewhere, right? They do, it doesn't scale down this small. Capacity planning docs all seem to assume if you're asking these questions you must be in the 1000+ element range. I'm trying to scale in a different dimension than they anticipated. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
