Raid
Recommended RAID configuration for domain controller Redundant array of independent disks (RAID) can be used for fault tolerant and to prevent single disk failures, if you have more then 1000 users accessing the domain controller then , place the log files on one RAID 1 array and keep the SYSVOL shared folder and the database together on a separate RAID 1 array. If you have less then 1000 users accessing the domain controller then you can place all the components in a single RAID 1 array, components are OS, log files, SYSVOL, Database Disk Space Recommendations for active directory installation Domain controller requires available free disk space for OS, log files, SYSVOL, database. Follow the below procedure to calculate the disk space requirement for domain controller (active directory installation) • On the drive that will contain the Active Directory database, Ntds.dit, provide 0.4 gigabytes (GB) of storage for each 1,000 users. For example, for a forest wi...