How to size a hardware for Active directory for 100users
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Friday, February 08, 2013 8:11 AMwhat is the minimum CPU/Memory/Harddsik space required for 100users
- Changed Type pbbergsMVP, Moderator Friday, February 08, 2013 1:04 PM
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Friday, February 08, 2013 8:22 AM
See this,
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Friday, February 08, 2013 8:22 AM
Not much. As long as you follow the recommended guidelines for the installed server OS you are ok.
2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb414778.aspx
2012: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134246.aspx
- Proposed As Answer by Nigel Finn Saturday, February 09, 2013 10:23 AM
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Friday, February 08, 2013 8:47 AMCould anyone change this tread from disscusion to question?
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Friday, February 08, 2013 1:08 PMModerator
There is an Active Directory sizer tool
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http://www.petri.co.il/active_directory_sizer_tool.htm
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Friday, February 08, 2013 9:10 PM
Capacity Planning for Active Directory Domain Services
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14355.capacity-planning-for-active-directory-domain-services.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/2847e005-d4e4-48f4-87a6-ddbdec8440c3/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/5f3605f4-3990-4713-9de6-6d04a862cae3Best Regards,
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Friday, February 08, 2013 9:41 PM
100 users will run on a pocket watch basically. Go with the min specs for a Windows server installation (say, 2gb ram, 40gb hard disk space, and a low to mid performing CPU) and see how you go. You can always scale up if you need to. I know that in my last job we ran our AD server from a Hyper-V guest with roughly those specs and there were certainly a lot more than 100 users.
Of course, my disclaimer here is that your needs will always depends on other things too (such as how many computers you have on the estate, what other functions AD supports, whether it hosts the FSMO roles, etc.). You'll need to review the appropriate documentation if you have any doubts.
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Saturday, February 09, 2013 3:18 AM
100 users will run on a pocket watch basically. Go with the min specs for a Windows server installation (say, 2gb ram, 40gb hard disk space, and a low to mid performing CPU) and see how you go. You can always scale up if you need to. I know that in my last job we ran our AD server from a Hyper-V guest with roughly those specs and there were certainly a lot more than 100 users.
Of course, my disclaimer here is that your needs will always depends on other things too (such as how many computers you have on the estate, what other functions AD supports, whether it hosts the FSMO roles, etc.). You'll need to review the appropriate documentation if you have any doubts.
I was going to say an old desktop, but I like pocket watch better.
Just to add, I would have two DCs minimum per domain for best practices, but more in case the first watch fails for whatever reason. At least no user, computer, groups, or basically the whole domain, won't be lost and scrambling to figure out how to recover it.
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