Hello I am considering to build a home lab with followingomain Controller, Backup Domain Controller, Backup server, FTP server, DNS and DHCP server. All are going to be virtual machines using ESXI 5.5 My question is: What are up and downsides for the DNS and DHCP server if I use them on one vm or on 2 different vm's ty
Unless you're building at the very large enterprise-scale, or providing DHCP or DNS Services at a WAN edge, there's very little advantage to splitting out your DNS, DC & DHCP services. In a home lab environment, I'd recommend building out the following environment: Server1: Domain Services DNS DHCP. Split scope 50% with Server2 DFS Services File Services Server2: Domain Services DNS DHCP. Split scope 50% with Server1 DFS Services File Services Server3: File Services Web Services, WWW, FTP Server4: WSUS This config will give you experience building domain services with multiple hosts and give you some level of redundancy as well. I usually leave my 2nd DC switched off and power it on once a week to synchronise. If I have a catastrophic domain corruption, I can switch #1 off and run from #2 for as long as needed. Running WSUS as a separate host achieves the same "switch on when needed" config. HTH.