[Samba] horizontal fragmentation?

[Felipe_G0NZÁLEZ_SANTIAG0]

Hello,
is it possible to apply a strategy of horizontal fragmentation into the Active Directory?
I mean, to store some amount of data in another DC, for example when the first DC is "full"

Any idea?

Felipe.

[Felipe_G0NZÁLEZ_SANTIAG0]

Hello Marc, I'm referring to divide/fragment de Database AD (if possible). Trying to store a set of Data in a DC and another set of data in other DC... something like this. I ask that, because I've been asked for a strategy or mechanism related to the scalability which based on the horizontal fragmentation of AD. Then, Does AD have some type of mechanism for supporting the horizontal fragmentation?

Thanks for reply.
FelipeGS6 .

----- Original Message -----

Hello Felipe,

Post by Felipe_G0NZÁLEZ_SANTIAG0
is it possible to apply a strategy of horizontal
fragmentation into the Active Directory?
I mean, to store some amount of data in another DC,
for example when the first DC is "full"

What do you mean with "the first DC is full"?
You mean that one DC is totally busy? In that case the clients
automatically use other DCs they find via DNS queries.
Regards,
Marc

[Volker Lendecke]

Post by Felipe_G0NZÁLEZ_SANTIAG0
I'm referring to divide/fragment de Database AD (if possible).
Trying to store a set of Data in a DC and another set
of data in other DC... something like this. I ask that,
because I've been asked for a strategy or mechanism
related to the scalability which based on the
horizontal fragmentation of AD. Then, Does AD
have some type of mechanism for supporting
the horizontal fragmentation?

You can't have e. g. 50% of the users on one DC and the other 50% on a
different one. All data in an AD is is replicated to all other DCs.
The AD consists of partitions. Depending on the DC's configuration, it
may happen, that e. g. a DC doesn't have the application partition,
where the DNS stuff is located, if no DNS server is configured on a DC.
However I don't know if Samba always replicates all partitions to all
DCs. I guess Andrew can tell us this.
But I think what you are trying to achieve, is not possible with an AD.

The only way around this is a trust relationship. Not fully there yet,
but eventually it will be.

Volker
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