On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 17:27, Georges Martin <jrjsmrtn at gmail.com> wrote:> A good practice is to have at least 2 DCs in a domain. > > >Yes, I'm aware of that and I try to adhere where possible. However, I'm supporting many smaller offices where 2 bare metal servers just wouldn't be acceptable in terms of TCO but an AD is still appreciated. So at the most I could virtualize a second DC but that wouldn't help much if the hardware gave up. My clients would accept the downtime in case of a disaster but proper backups are vital. And ideally the recovery shouldn't be as costly as a new server ;-)
A 10 user 10 PC Samba AD runs perfectly on a [pair of] Raspberry PI[s]. TCO of such a setup is not too significant. On 10.02.2019 18:05, Viktor Trojanovic via samba wrote:> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 17:27, Georges Martin <jrjsmrtn at gmail.com> wrote: > >> A good practice is to have at least 2 DCs in a domain. >> >> >> > Yes, I'm aware of that and I try to adhere where possible. However, I'm > supporting many smaller offices where 2 bare metal servers just wouldn't be > acceptable in terms of TCO but an AD is still appreciated. So at the most I > could virtualize a second DC but that wouldn't help much if the hardware > gave up. My clients would accept the downtime in case of a disaster but > proper backups are vital. And ideally the recovery shouldn't be as costly > as a new server ;-)
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 20:31, Norbert Hanke via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> A 10 user 10 PC Samba AD runs perfectly on a [pair of] Raspberry PI[s]. > TCO of such a setup is not too significant. > > I agree the hardware cost of a Raspberry PI is much smaller but the timeto setup, secure and maintain is quite the same as with any other machine. Having said that, it's an interesting approach, I'll keep it in mind. Viktor