We have acquired enough equipment that we have decided to move our primary production equipment to a data center and leave a secondary/redundant set of equipment in our office. Because of the move the network is changing substantially and I am in need of assistance.
Our current private IPs are 192.168.0.xx. With this move the equipment in the data center will have private IPs of 172.20.187.xx. The connection between the office and the data center is a 100 Mb fiber connection.
The data center will have two PIX 515E firewall configured in failover. A Dell PowerConnect managed switch and the servers. All servers will have dedicated IP addresses.
The firewalls are configured with five active ports and the switch has four VLANS.
The Domain Controller is going to remain at the office for DHCP for the workstations.
My primary question is how do I link these two sites so files can be easily managed? We are accustomed to using windows explorer type utilities for maintaining files. Wiht the new configuration this presumably will not be possible.
Also, how will the 172.20.187.xx communicate with the 192.168.0.xx network for the domain controller/active directory?
Can anyone provide some insight on how to best configure Windows 2000 and/or the hardware to make managing this new configuration as easy as possible.
Thanks.
Our current private IPs are 192.168.0.xx. With this move the equipment in the data center will have private IPs of 172.20.187.xx. The connection between the office and the data center is a 100 Mb fiber connection.
The data center will have two PIX 515E firewall configured in failover. A Dell PowerConnect managed switch and the servers. All servers will have dedicated IP addresses.
The firewalls are configured with five active ports and the switch has four VLANS.
The Domain Controller is going to remain at the office for DHCP for the workstations.
My primary question is how do I link these two sites so files can be easily managed? We are accustomed to using windows explorer type utilities for maintaining files. Wiht the new configuration this presumably will not be possible.
Also, how will the 172.20.187.xx communicate with the 192.168.0.xx network for the domain controller/active directory?
Can anyone provide some insight on how to best configure Windows 2000 and/or the hardware to make managing this new configuration as easy as possible.
Thanks.
