Domain Controller Disk Partitions

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Is there any need to have more than one disk partition for a domain
controller, ie: should we use the entire disk as c: or should we have a c:
and d: partition? thanks in advance
 
You will definitely need at least two partitions, maybe more depending on
your number of hard drives. It is recommended that at a minimum you keep the
sysvol folder on a separate partition, preferably on a separate physical
drive. The AD database itself and the log files can also be separated if you
have enough disks.
 
If you thinking about Perf gains you won't get anything useful unless you
have separate spindles.

Regards,
/Jimmy
 
thanks Simon, we have two physical disks - so a good configuration might be
to have a c: and d: partition on one disk with sysvol on d: and setup raid1
mirror to the other disk. would you agree
 
we are not so concenred with performance at this stage just putting together
a recommend dc spec for our sites, we have two pysical scsi disks and raid1,
I think we will go with a c: partition of 7-10GB and the remainder of the
disk approx 20GB to d: with sysvol moved to d:
 
I recommend you to place the SYSVOL share at the operative system drive, and
place the database and the transaction logfiles on the separate drive
instead.

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Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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Chriss is this purely for performance? using both drives will leave us
nothing for redundancy due to hardware failure.

thanks
 
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