Not wishing to be picky but are these dedicated DC's ie doing nothing else like file and print? If so I suggest you get more DC's as your clearly pushing them to hard, I've never seen a DC that busy even in a 60,000 plus user organisation.
Windows server 2008 32 or 64 bit, what to get?
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Not wishing to be picky but are these dedicated DC's ie doing nothing else like file and print? If so I suggest you get more DC's as your clearly pushing them to hard, I've never seen a DC that busy even in a 60,000 plus user organisation.
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Dedicated, file and print would never end up near a DC in our environment. It's not the number of users, it's the fact that they all log in between 8-50 and 9-10 in the morning.
I've raised the idea of extra AD boxes but it won't fly, they do the job just fine, they respond quickly enough to the requests, no problems to speak off. There's nothing wrong with them being busy and the idea of shelling out a heap of cash on boxes which spend 90% of the day doing nothing isn't popular with management and I have better things to push for to be honest.
It will change, the next raft of infrastructure upgrades at that client is focused on moving to active/active datacenters, at present we're pretty much in active/backup configuration so that'll have a positive affect.
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Off the top of my head, those servers likely serve 18000 users overall, US users are served from california and we started moving users in Asia to those boxes as well as a trial but put in on hold as there wasn't a huge benefit, I don't think they've been moved back but if they have we'll back up to 20k or so on the UK servers...