Have you already seen these?
DHCP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/3040afd1-e82b-4ded-8fcd-aa8fe021fcc1.mspx
DNS
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/949f3a45-84e2-487f-80d7-bce184b28a06.mspx
For the sites I've seen, 650 sites with 2 subnets each and
<100 clients can be handled easily by a single DHCP server. However, a
lot of that depends on lease duration, times, etc. and you likely wouldn't want
to take the chance on losing that one server and network link. That would
indicate at least two DHCP servers would be deployed (clustered perhaps,
possibly separated by geography depending on network topology).
DNS is highly scalable, but you'll see the planning numbers
in the link.
Al
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Planning
Has
anyone got some insight/links about a scenario like
this?
Three
DHCP servers (could offload to separate machines). ~650 sites, 2 subnets a pop,
~70K dhcp clients (maybe another 10K, no idea what the mac population is).
What
kind of hardware requirement would I have to support this on Windows 2003 doing
DHCP for this kind of setup. I haven’t a faintest clue what the load on the
current environment is (runs AIX).
Also
wondering what DNS servers running hundreds if not thousands of zones looks like
from a hardware standpoint.
Thanks,Brian
Desmond
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