[K12OSN] Sanity check needed before rollout

[Shawn Powers]

On May 29, 2007, at 12:47 PM, john wrote:
> 1) What am I missing, forgetting etc?

The file server worries me, not because of horsepower or RAM, but  
because you don't mention drive speed.  The file server should be  
able to do a lot of continuous seek/write operations, and I've only  
ever had luck with SCSI for that.  Others may like SATA, but I  
haven't had the experience to say either way.

> 2) Do I need a "real" server doing RAID 5 or whatever for the LDAP  
> Backend

Not for the LDAP part, but possibly for the file serving.

> 3) Am I REALLY off base with my proposed setup?

Sounds pretty good to me, as long as the file serving stuff is up to  
snuff.  I have zero experience with LDAP/AD so I don't know if what  
you propose is the best, I'll leave that to smarter folks than me.  :)

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