Windows 2003 AD and Clustering?

[DarrenBolton]

Here's the plan...

I have 2 HP DL380's and a MSA1000 with a 2/8 SAN Switch in, im planning on building a SQL Cluster using the 2 DL380's the only problem that I have is that the SQL Cluster is going to be sitting in a DMZ therefore won't have access to a domain as we currently still have NT4 domains so opening up NETBIOS is not a option for the SQL Cluster to connect to.

When im wanting to know is can AD be clustered? as I have no other servers that I could installed a AD Domain on in the DMZ and im wanting to run the Cluster as Active/Passive.

Idea's please

 

[Micron1090]

AD can probably be clustered...never tried it actually.

But curious why you would want to. Might be a better idea to throw another server in the DMZ to run AD. That way you can give your firewall people specific Ports and IPs(source and destnation) to allow through. Create a DMZ site in AD, add that DMZ subnet to it and the sql boxes will hit the DC in that site.

 

[Jpoandl]

I believe AD can be clustered:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;281662

However, I don't know of any company actually clustering the domain controllers.

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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