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Windows 2003 server: Prefered Server Config

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I have 2 boxes - Dell Poweredge 2400 PIII 733 Dual Proc with 512MB Ram...6 18 GB Disks in each. Mirrored C drives..the other 4 disks in a RAID 5 Array....

I want to use these servers as 2 DC's in a windows 2003 domain....What I was going to do was as mentioned have a mirrored C drive partioned into C and D drives 8.5GB on each partition...

Was going to install the AD on C and the Log files on D...I know they say separate disks for this but what do you do when you havent the capacity :-|

Was going to have DNS and WINS on C on both....
And was going to use the RAID 5 Array on both servers for a file store.....

My company havent enough cash to buy me new servers so am left with this and have been told to have it up and runing within 6 months...

We have approx 120 users at teh moment but its bound to be more at some point

Can anyone let me know if this would be feasible

Cheers
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hey people..cheers for this..I was kinda sure bit never hurts to get some feedback :-) Yes I have a full backup runing every week night with an incremental at the weekends...I have two full backup thursday tapes (Thursday 1 and 2 used on a fortnightly basis) which are stored offsite (well my house ;-) )

RAM I have noted I will be putting a request in for another 512MB for eack box on Monday morning..should be ok for that :-)

Exchange I have noted...we have a seperate box for this (Poweredge 2650 rack, 4 disks 1 and a raid on the other 3 disks, not great but again have a full backup every week night) plan to migrate to 2003 from 5.5 after the migration to AD.

Again noted on the Split partions on the C drive .. seprate pysical disk for performance...however im stuck with what ive got and as the servers only have 6 disks im stuffed...but hey it sounds good enough what ive got :-)

Cheers :-)
Glad to hear. Write back once you've completed your project. I'd like to hear how it comes out.

BTW...the migration from 5.5 to 2K3 was a snap. Microsoft has a lot of docs out there for 5.5 to 2K that you can follow. Also, Exchange 2K3 has a deployment guide that runs you through most, although not all, of the steps to migrate.

Glad we could help.

Drob