samba - Apr 2015 - Recommended stations on a server and slave domain controller

Hello Marc,

Thanks for you help, I will give you our feedbacks if we can achieve 
this project.

Regards

Sourisack Phanivong
Support OSSA

LINAGORA
80 Rue Roque de Fillol
92800 Puteaux

Le 31/03/2015 21:09, Marc Muehlfeld a ?crit :
> Hello Sourisack,
>
> Am 31.03.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Sourisack PHANIVONG:
>> As I told you, the final aim is to have more than 100 000 users in one
>> domain, is this a mistake to use a single master DC ?
> >
> > If we can't do this, is there a special feature to develop to make
> > this infrastructure work?
> > LINAGORA can support this development (a part or the totality of it,
> > with the agreement of the community) if necessary.
>
> It depents on your infrastructure and your needs, if a single domain 
> is suitable. But if you're really planning such a huge installation, 
> you should think about professional support. Especially if you need 
> some development work to fix some current bugs or enhance Samba with 
> missing features.
>
> https://www.samba.org/samba/support/
>
>
> If you're really implement Samba with this dimension, it would be 
> great, if you could give a summary after the project: Number of DCs, 
> hardware configuration, etc.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc

Hello Marc,

We are planning to start with 5000 users.
Do you have an idea or some feebacks on how many DCs are necessary to 
have the best performance and what is the max users that could be 
include in each DCs ?

Thank you.

Regards

Sourisack Phanivong
Support OSSA

LINAGORA
80 Rue Roque de Fillol
92800 Puteaux

Le 01/04/2015 11:09, Sourisack PHANIVONG a ?crit :
> Hello Marc,
>
> Thanks for you help, I will give you our feedbacks if we can achieve 
> this project.
>
> Regards
>
> Sourisack Phanivong
> Support OSSA
>
> LINAGORA
> 80 Rue Roque de Fillol
> 92800 Puteaux
>
> Le 31/03/2015 21:09, Marc Muehlfeld a ?crit :
>> Hello Sourisack,
>>
>> Am 31.03.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Sourisack PHANIVONG:
>>> As I told you, the final aim is to have more than 100 000 users in
one
>>> domain, is this a mistake to use a single master DC ?
>> >
>> > If we can't do this, is there a special feature to develop to
make
>> > this infrastructure work?
>> > LINAGORA can support this development (a part or the totality of
it,
>> > with the agreement of the community) if necessary.
>>
>> It depents on your infrastructure and your needs, if a single domain 
>> is suitable. But if you're really planning such a huge
installation,
>> you should think about professional support. Especially if you need 
>> some development work to fix some current bugs or enhance Samba with 
>> missing features.
>>
>> https://www.samba.org/samba/support/
>>
>>
>> If you're really implement Samba with this dimension, it would be 
>> great, if you could give a summary after the project: Number of DCs, 
>> hardware configuration, etc.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>

Hello Sourisack,

Am 02.04.2015 um 11:52 schrieb Sourisack PHANIVONG:
> We are planning to start with 5000 users.
> Do you have an idea or some feebacks on how many DCs are necessary to
> have the best performance and what is the max users that could be
> include in each DCs ?
This isn't easy to say. It depents on your environment and many factors.

MS published a document about that:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14355.capacity-planning-for-active-directory-domain-services.aspx
But this is also just very general.


What are your plans about this domain? Do you have to populate the AD 
with 5000 users at once and all are accessing it at the same time (e. g. 
logon storm in the morning)? Or can you start with 1000 users and two 
DCS, see how the load and performance is and then increase the number of 
users and, if required, the DCs.


Regards,
Marc