Think virtualisation - where I've implemented lag-sites
they are running on VMs. The software-solutions I was looking at at this point
were way more expensive than running 4 DCs virtualized on the same machine (1
root-dc and one account-dc per lag-site).
I do not agree that lag-sites need to run in a physical
separate site. I do agree that you want two datacenters which are physically
separate, however if one DC burns down you usually do not need lag-sites (the
AD-Info is still in the other datacenter or in a branch), if all datacenter plus
branches are burned down you don't need a lag-site - you need a working backup
which isn't burned.
Gruesse - Sincerely,
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:17 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag Sites7 lag sites? holy sh*t!would it be much cheaper to use a solution that can undelete the deleted objects and restore (push back) the attributes?jorge
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 16:59
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lag SitesAs Jorge mentioned you do not have to follow your physical subnets for Lag-Sites. Usually you would use that as a guideline, but for lag-sites you can do a sub-subnetting. AD replication does not care about the physical structure or TCP/IP-Settings (Subnetmask, Def-Gateway) - it just cares what you have configured in the sites, subnets and what IP the DC is using. So you can in a 10.1.x.x network you could configure all servers with 10.1.x.x IP-Adresses with a Subnet-Mask of 255.255.0.0, however you keep all servers in one lagsite in the same "virtual subnet" 10.1.9.x and all production Servers in 10.1.1.x - 10.1.8.x. Remember that all have the default gateway and subnet mask for 10.1.x.x. But now you create the virtual subnets in AD, and join 10.1.1.x - 10.1.8.x to the production site, and 10.1.9.x to the lag-site. AD-Replication will do what you wanted it to do, even without the need for routing.However - and this was the main reason why I wanted to follow up on this - remember that one lag-site might not be enough. Imagine you configure your lag-site to replicate every thursday 6pm. So if someone makes an error deleting a whole OU on e.g. Tuesday, you are recognizing it on Wednesday and are able to rollback this OU (authoritative restore on the lag site, then force replication). However if someone deletes a OU on thursday, and you recognize it on friday (or even thursday 7pm) you have to restore a server from tape first, because your only lag-site has already replicated that deletion.What I prefer is creating two lag-sites, one which replicates in the middle of the week and one which replicates on the weekend. No matter when the error will be performed (even right before replication of one of the lag-sites), we always have a at least half week old copy of the AD in the one of the Lag-Site. And I've even heard from someone using seven lag-sites for every day in the week. Perhaps he's jumping into this thread later ;-)Gruesse - Sincerely,
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:29 PM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] AD Lag SitesSingle Forest, Single Domain, W2K3 FFLI am thinking about setting up a lag site for DR purposes.Just for clarification purposes, would I need a separate IP subnet i.e IP subnet that isn't assigned to any other site in AD to create this?All my existing IP Subnets are assigned to existing Sites which are used for normal replication, so I am assuming my question will result in a yes.Does anyone have any recommended guides to followthanks frank
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