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Originally posted by Drippy1:
Here what I have. 2 Dell poweredge servers (500mhz 512 ram) with autoloaders. (kick *** servers btw) And another compaq server thats decent (300mhz 256 ram) with lots of hd space and an external tape backup unit. All servers have raid 5. Here are the requirements:
1. Have a Primary domain controller - get a "client" PC, put it in the servers room and install it as PDC (make sure you have 2 HDDs in RAID 1
2. Have a backup domain controller Again a "client" PC and make it DHCP, WINS, DNS etc.. (get RAID 1 for it)
3. Backup all three servers nightly - use the 300mhz 256 ram for that.
4. Run microsoft exchange - [use one of the powerful servers [/B]
5. Run microsoft SQL (2 databases)use the 2nd powerfull server for that.
6. A file server for home dir and stuff use the 300mhz 256 ram for that.
7. Need fire wall protection (a cisco pix is what I had in mind so the servers aren't sitting on the net)- I can't recommend anything withou more info, basically I would say FW-1.
8. Make as much as possible redundant. - I would install each server in the following way : 2x small HDDs (O/S) RAID 1, all the rest RAID 5. Backup scheme - Full back up once a week, incremental during days.
Any ideas how I should set this up.
now a good idea is to get power users to work on the strong server (500) unless the Database is killing it..