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Onefast99gsx · 08-26-2008

Hey guys- Thanks for your expertise here on this. I spoke to my boss yesterday in a meeting and we agreed that partitioning is the best way to go. We will do 2 partitions C: (OS) and E: (DATA). I looked at a couple of our general purpose Win2003 machines that were built before my time there to get an idea how much space was used for the OS & Data combined. Our terminal server had about 16G used up and that's with several applications. So I'm gonna go about 20G for the OS partition. Wait...before you say something... Yesterday I 'aquired' for testing purposes, Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0. This software is EXCELLENT and very easy to use. I did a test and went from 20G down to 15G and then back 20G. Worked perfect! I've used Partition Magic before but that was just on home PC's. I was unsure how all this would work on a RAID 5 array. No problem. So keep that in mind if you guys ever get in a jam.

To answer your question, tpunx99gsx... No the Win2003 server won't be used as a PDC. It's used as a Patch Mgmt, Joomla Intranet & a few other smaller applicatons for our bank. The Win2008 that I will also be building will be the PDC. I will have to think what we will use for the BDC. I know you said it should be stand alone but our budget is so tight right now I'm lucky to even be doing 2 additional servers the way it is. My boss & upper mgmt will stick gobs of money into our AS/400 iseries system but when it comes to the PC file server network it's a whole different story. It sucks! Right now our Novell 6.5 server serves as a shitload of purposes. When it's done, that Netware server will go from 1 server to a span of 3 servers but in a Win2003 & 2008 mix so that's surely a step up.

For the most part, our network is pretty simple. Our PC's don't use any DHCP addressing. We use static IP's... and the DNS IP's to get to the internet are manually entered in the network configuration of the PC. This was how it was done before I got there. The PC's are currently in a Workgroup. Going to a Domain controller will be nice!

Question for you guys. Reverting back to partitioning. Is it best to keep the partitions as Basic drives or is best practice to convert them to Dynamic.

Thanks again.

08-26-2008	#6
Onefast99gsx Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,411	Re: Any Microsoft Server experts here? Hey guys- Thanks for your expertise here on this. I spoke to my boss yesterday in a meeting and we agreed that partitioning is the best way to go. We will do 2 partitions C: (OS) and E: (DATA). I looked at a couple of our general purpose Win2003 machines that were built before my time there to get an idea how much space was used for the OS & Data combined. Our terminal server had about 16G used up and that's with several applications. So I'm gonna go about 20G for the OS partition. Wait...before you say something... Yesterday I 'aquired' for testing purposes, Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0. This software is EXCELLENT and very easy to use. I did a test and went from 20G down to 15G and then back 20G. Worked perfect! I've used Partition Magic before but that was just on home PC's. I was unsure how all this would work on a RAID 5 array. No problem. So keep that in mind if you guys ever get in a jam. To answer your question, tpunx99gsx... No the Win2003 server won't be used as a PDC. It's used as a Patch Mgmt, Joomla Intranet & a few other smaller applicatons for our bank. The Win2008 that I will also be building will be the PDC. I will have to think what we will use for the BDC. I know you said it should be stand alone but our budget is so tight right now I'm lucky to even be doing 2 additional servers the way it is. My boss & upper mgmt will stick gobs of money into our AS/400 iseries system but when it comes to the PC file server network it's a whole different story. It sucks! Right now our Novell 6.5 server serves as a shitload of purposes. When it's done, that Netware server will go from 1 server to a span of 3 servers but in a Win2003 & 2008 mix so that's surely a step up. For the most part, our network is pretty simple. Our PC's don't use any DHCP addressing. We use static IP's... and the DNS IP's to get to the internet are manually entered in the network configuration of the PC. This was how it was done before I got there. The PC's are currently in a Workgroup. Going to a Domain controller will be nice! Question for you guys. Reverting back to partitioning. Is it best to keep the partitions as Basic drives or is best practice to convert them to Dynamic. Thanks again.