samba - Aug 2023 - domain with a single dc

Let?s get a little positive

In a VM environment, it?s quite easy to spawn a couple of small machines ( in a
similar environment as yours with about 500 users I use 3 DCs with 2 cores and
2GB memory each in different hosts).

The file server can also be a VM, maybe 4Gb for your number of users. I use raw
disks from the host to the VM. It works like a charm.

LP
On 3 Aug 2023 at 10:52 +0200, Admin\(IT\) <admin at marche.be>,
wrote:
>
> It is a virtual infra with backup of the whole vm every night.

On Thursday, August 3, 2023 6:09:01 AM EDT Luis Peromarta via samba
wrote:
> Let?s get a little positive
> 
> In a VM environment, it?s quite easy to spawn a couple of small machines (
> in a similar environment as yours with about 500 users I use 3 DCs with 2
> cores and 2GB memory each in different hosts).
> 
> The file server can also be a VM, maybe 4Gb for your number of users. I use
> raw disks from the host to the VM. It works like a charm.
> 
> LP
> 
> On 3 Aug 2023 at 10:52 +0200, Admin\(IT\) <admin at marche.be>,
wrote:
> > It is a virtual infra with backup of the whole vm every night.
Similarly, if I may be bold enough to promote my sambaXP presentation work, I 
demonstrated running Samba containers on a single VM host with one set doing 
file server duty and another running as an AD DC. Docker provides the isolation 
between the two "Sambas" to make it work.

Demo & details: https://github.com/samba-in-kubernetes/samba-container/
discussions/130
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPFARJuGMYQ

I'll admit this is more of a Proof-of-Concept than something done in 
production, but I'd love to get interest and assistance from people
who'd be
interested in running these in production. :-)