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Can you install active directory on a different partition other than your OS (C:) partition?
I have 3 - 73gb hard drives running RAID5. I created a 15 gig partition for the OS and left the rest unallocated. Can I create another partition using the rest of the hd space and install Active Directory, DNS, etc. on it or does it have to be installed on the C: drive?
Yes. I would suggest creating two additional partitions in fact.
C: for OS.
D: For the AD database
E: For the AD transaction logs.
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How large do these partitions need to be? I want to make sure i allocate my space properly. When you dcpromo a server does it ask which partition you want to install the DNS and AD on? Should I only worry about where I install AD and not the DNS, etc...?
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You need these to be big enough for your environment. I can't tell you without an idea of what size your domain is.
Yes, when you DCPromo, it asks for the full path of where the logs and db go.
For DNS, I would recommend Active Directory integrated DNS anyway, which stores DNS info within the AD database.
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I expect us to have no more than 75 total employees when our company is fully staffed.
I plan to have my AD server also be my DNS server. Should I setup this server to be the primary DNS server before I install active directory, or does it allow me to integrate into AD when I run dcpromo?
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If DNS isn't setup upon dcpromo, DNS will be setup on the DC for you. It will ask what kind of zone you want at that point. Choose AD integrated.
With 75 employees, you probably don't need that much. Then again, you have some 140 gigs of storage.
For this small of an organization, I would actually suggest something different than RAID5, since you're not gonna need that much disk i/o. If you can, simply mirror 2 drives, and have the third as a hot spare. That would allow up to two drives to fail without loss of service.
You would then have around 60 gigs of storage. That would leave you with plenty honestly. I'd do 20 on the C:, 30 gigs on the db, 10 gigs on the logs. Put your page file on C: drive.
I don't see much of a point for RAID5 for performance on a dc for such a small org. If you need that kind of performance, build a second DC you should have anyway for fault tolerance.
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With my RAID5 configuration, if one of my HDs fails, all I have to do is replace it and my hardware controller will rebuild the RAID without data loss.
I am going to have 2 DCs. I thought about RAID1, but I plan to run other applications on these servers as well. Such as symantec corporate, print services, intranet, etc... Wouldn't RAID5 be a better performance decision for this? I want to build both of them identically, so if RAID5 is a better choice for one of them, then that's what I want to do for both of them.
What do you think?
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"I plan to run other applications on these servers as well. Such as symantec corporate, print services, intranet, etc..."
Well, if that's the case, RAID5 would be the better bet, but I don't know how wise it would be to run IIS on a DC. You can do it, but it's not best practice at all.
With that said, should you do it, I would think the intranet site would only need to be on one, correct? If that's the case, put IIS on the second DC you stand up. Transfer only the schema master, infrastructure master, and domain naming master FSMO roles to it, leaving PDC emulator and RIS master on the first DC. Also, make the second DC a Global Catalog for fault tolerance. Be aware that should you move to multiple domains, this second DC must not be a Global Catalog server unless all DC's in the forest are, so GC role should be removed at that point.
"With my RAID5 configuration, if one of my HDs fails, all I have to do is replace it and my hardware controller will rebuild the RAID without data loss."
Depending on what server you're using, some servers have controllers that support "hot spares". Neither here nor there since RAID5 sounds like the way to go for you, but FYI, what I was proposing was RAID1 with hot spare. THat meant if a drive failed, the other drive would have taken its place, and rebuilt the mirror. At that point, a second drive could have failed, and your DC STILL would have been rolling along. With 3 drives in RAID5 and no hot spare, if you lose 2 drives, you're done.
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Thanks for all the info.
I won't need IIS running for my Intranet or any other applications. The intranet will be basic HTML and the applications will be basic VB6 apps.
I will leave my main DC alone, it won't do anything but be a DC.
I'll use my second DC for all the other apps. My hardware controller does support hot spares, to i'm going to get another hard drive for each for that reason.
Again, thanks for all the information, it was extremely helpful.
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