Domain controller in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi

What would be the criteria to select and define domain controller in SAP with three land scape.

1)SAND BOX(

2)t(QA)

3)Production.

Regards

Sukrut S

[Former Member]

Thanks for your help.

[Former Member]

Hi

Is there any thumb rule i.e if the server has HA and mirrored and secure than it should be the Domain controller.

Actually,I am trying to understand the significance behind selecting the only PRD or QA server.

We have have three landscapae env here and both QA and PRD is HA and mirrored than what would be correct choice for domain controller.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Sukrut S

[Former Member]

Hi Sukrut,

There is no thumb rule as such. We have only best practice in SAP. You can configure any of the system as domain controller in your landscape according to your business needs and system activities(like system refresh etc).

SAP recommends to define the system which has HA as domain controler. This is just a best practice. Not any thumb rule.

regards,

Vinodh.

[Former Member]

There is nothing like thumb rule for placing a domain controller on a high availability machine. But its always better to place that way. Else ther is one other better option, if you have solution manager in your landscape you can go with solution manager as your domain controller.

[Former Member]

Hi Sukrut,

My solution:

- Trans FS owned by PRD and shared to the other servers. So it will be HA, mirrored,...

- DEV system as Domain Controller.

With this configuration, you never have to modify PRD system configuration when need to change the domain config (like when you refresh your QA system), and only must make changes to DEV and QA/Sandbox

Regards,

JC Llanes.

[Former Member]

Hi

One quick question

Did you mean PRODUCTION server would be the ideal choice if we have Development,QA and PRD as a LANDSCAPE ?

Regard

Sukrut s

[Former Member]

Hi Sukrut,

The best practice is to define the production server as domain controller. The main reason is due to its high availability.

regards,

Vinodh.

[andreas_herzog]

not MUST...but SHOULD...

GreetZ, AH

[andreas_herzog]

usually PRD will be kept highly available...disk mirroring etc. so this might one of the most important criteria...

GreetZ, AH