August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Content preview from Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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Hardware requirements
In modern infrastructures, most workloads run as virtualized environments. AD DS can also be deployed in virtualized platforms, but there are certain scenarios where physical domain controllers should be used. For AD DS 2016, the following are the minimum hardware requirements:
- 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
- 2 GB RAM
- A storage adapter that supports the PCI Express architecture (Windows Server 2016 does not support IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE for boot, data or page drives)
- 32 GB of free space
- 1 x network adapter
- DVD drive or support for a network USB boot
These are the minimum requirements for installing the AD DS 2016; however, this doesn't mean it can accommodate an organization's identity infrastructure requirements. The system ...