[Freeipa-users] freeIPA and AD in multi-homed environment

Alexander Bokovoy abokovoy at redhat.com
Tue Apr 28 10:26:23 UTC 2015


On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Арсений Черняков wrote:
>   - Hi all.
>   I've got a rather big domain environment with 10 distributed locations,
>   and I'm considering using FreeIPA as an id manager for linux users and
>   servers, alongside with existing AD, using trusts. In every location, there
>   are 2 DCs for windows environment, and I'm thinking about deployment of 2
>   freeIPA servers for each location, with replicas. This document states that
>   I can't use more than 20 servers per IPA domain:
>   https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/Setting_up_IPA_Replicas.html#replica-topologies
>
>   - "No more than 20 servers and replicas should be involved in a single
>   Identity Management domain."
>   - How strict is this restriction? Is there any way I can deploy freeIPA
>   in this situation, assuming that number of locations would increace over
>   time? Is there any other limitations to integrate freeIPA in AD?
The limitations described above are for supported configurations
deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you want a larger configuration
to be supported, you need to contact your Red Hat representatives and
work out with them exact support statement.


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/ Alexander Bokovoy




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