The smallest forest I did this in had ~5000 users. I don't think I'd be inclined to do it on anything smaller, unless there was a specific performance need that warranted it...
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > Preface: Going from Windows 2003 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 domain ( X64), new > Domain Controllers are going to be virtual ( ESX 4.x) all but one. > > I saw the following article from the Active Directory team about best > practices and recommendations > > > http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2007/02/09/active-directory-on-separate-volumes.aspx > > I also saw the same recommendations in Miansi book, in splitting the > sysvol/transaction Logs on separate Luns. > > Basically > > OS C:\ > > SYSVOL\NTDS.DIT ( D:\) > > Transaction Logs: E:\ > > Is anyone else doing this out there for a forest of less than 20K in users, > and probably less than 100K in objects? > > Only issue I could see is usually we store additional virtual disks with > the .VMX file which means they would be on the same SAN LUN, which would > basically negate the benefit of splitting the IO and files on different > disks in the virtual land. On the physical server I could go with 3 RAID 1 > arrays and put each section on that accordingly. > > Thoughts, I am interested in hearin what others are doing, to increase the > performance in there R2 AD environments. > > Z > > Edward E. Ziots > > CISSP, Network +, Security + > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > Email:[email protected] <email%[email protected]> > > Cell:401-639-3505 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
