BoomAMs thread asking for help on designing a network has got me interested in the different types of network structures people here use, list yours, ill start with my works:
around 500 clients
8 Secondary DCs (one per 50-80 clients)
1 Primary DC
1 central file store connected to an eonstor with 12 drives
Printers on the local DC of there required area
Ghostcast on each DC (not found a way around ghost not working through different Vlans yet)
1 linux proxy
desktop/start menus load off of local DCs
2 Terminal servers
1 exchange box with a virtual machine backup of the proxy incase the proxy box dies
1gb direct to all switchs before branching off to 100mb per machine (1gb x 2 trunked fibre connections to different blocks on the main backbone)
1 utilities server running IIS for the intranet and sophos server
theres other servers but i wont bother listing those as they dont do much
the reason i ask mainly is for learning purposes, id like to know the different ways different networks are setup depending on the amount of clients and what there used for.
EG for us we have to make sure client users can barely breathe without us knowing so everythings very locked down and because of this more things load over the network requiring as much as possible to be local to the user rather than sucking if down off the file server
around 500 clients
8 Secondary DCs (one per 50-80 clients)
1 Primary DC
1 central file store connected to an eonstor with 12 drives
Printers on the local DC of there required area
Ghostcast on each DC (not found a way around ghost not working through different Vlans yet)
1 linux proxy
desktop/start menus load off of local DCs
2 Terminal servers
1 exchange box with a virtual machine backup of the proxy incase the proxy box dies
1gb direct to all switchs before branching off to 100mb per machine (1gb x 2 trunked fibre connections to different blocks on the main backbone)
1 utilities server running IIS for the intranet and sophos server
theres other servers but i wont bother listing those as they dont do much
the reason i ask mainly is for learning purposes, id like to know the different ways different networks are setup depending on the amount of clients and what there used for.
EG for us we have to make sure client users can barely breathe without us knowing so everythings very locked down and because of this more things load over the network requiring as much as possible to be local to the user rather than sucking if down off the file server
