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workstation server ratio
Name: qweasdzxc Date: August 14, 2005 at 07:26:05 Pacific OS: Various CPU/Ram: various
Comment:
I have been asked to setup a network at work; there will be around 100 stations and 10 printers. The business is expanding and over the next few years these figures will increase. To keep performance up on the network, how many servers should I be running?
Name: wackajaw Date: August 14, 2005 at 07:40:23 Pacific
Reply:
Dear jo, your question is quite general? I think the performance of your network is depending on the character of your business. And the ammount of servers is depending on the speed of expanding of your LAN.
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Response Number 2
Name: Curt R Date: August 14, 2005 at 10:45:50 Pacific
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What are you going to be running on your network....Exchange, SQL, etc? Highend app's like the aforementioned could use up a lot of resources (especially SQL or any database program) so if you're going to be running any of those, it might be a good idea to plan on one server per highend app.
Also, you will likely want at least 2 DC's for redundancy.
If you have remote sites, you'll want one server (minimum) per site with a copy of the GC on it so users can authenticate to their local server...saving on WAN bandwidth usage and decreasing login times.
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