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| Thread ID: 88168 | 2008-03-17 21:04:00 | how many servers? | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 650256 | 2008-03-17 21:04:00 | How many servers would an average company (say 75 employees) need? As i want to virtualise a fake company for Microsoft exam practices, and want to keep it as realistic as possible. Am i right in thinking 5-10 servers? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 650257 | 2008-03-17 21:25:00 | Well, I would say, a domain controller, exchange server, sql\Database server, file server printing & or Utility server and maybe a Terminal Server for remote uses. Then there are intranet sevices if the company is big enough for an internal web site. A server for WWW services especially if they will do e-retail. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 650258 | 2008-03-17 21:39:00 | Well, I would say, a domain controller, exchange server, sql\Database server, file server printing & or Utility server and maybe a Terminal Server for remote uses. Then there are intranet sevices if the company is big enough for an internal web site. A server for WWW services especially if they will do e-retail. No reason why your domain controller, terminal server and file/print server couldn't all be the same server tho. You'd certainly want a separate box for Exchange, and depending on the type of business, you may also need a production server for all your transactional information, and a data warehouse for analysis. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 650259 | 2008-03-17 22:49:00 | Well, i guess you could do that nofam, though i wouldnt recommend the DC as a FS also. You cant have a DC as a TS also, though possible, its also completely mad and unsecure. Our SQL server is also our Data Warehouse |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 650260 | 2008-03-17 22:56:00 | Well, i guess you could do that nofam, though i wouldnt recommend the DC as a FS also. You cant have a DC as a TS also, though possible, its also completely mad and unsecure. Our SQL server is also our Data Warehouse Interesting - that's exactly how things are set up where I work!! And we're only a little $60 million company! I'll defer to you on this though (I'll have to pick your brains in another thread on the whys and wherefores) - let's not confuse aidanmaz with it at this stage! ;) |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 650261 | 2008-03-17 23:41:00 | haha i maybe 19 but im pretty adapt in AD. remember im just faking it for an exam practice. i was thinking 2 DCs a second DNS server, FS, TS, maybe sql. i dont have exchange so il have to skip it for testing | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 650262 | 2008-03-18 00:05:00 | There's a big question: What does this company do? What does their IT infrastructure support? You might have an "average" company which only uses email. You might have another, of the same size, using some sort of ERP or CRM package. The requirements for each would be different. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 650263 | 2008-03-18 00:14:00 | lets say they are a multi-national company which provides IT support for smaller companies (ie similar to Datacom). | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 650264 | 2008-03-18 01:33:00 | Well, going by Microsoft, they only need ONE server! Small Business Server 2003 can support up to 75 users but all components of it (like exchange) have to be run on the one server. |
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