In your experience, any practical hardware capacity planning I should be
aware when selecting hardware for a PKI infrastructure ?

I am planning to use total of two physical servers for redundancy. I would
put the Off-line root CA in a Virtual machine and keep it shut down.

I am plannig to use a 3.0GB Pentium, 4GB RAM server. From what I have been
reading there is no major prcessing power to worry about. I have total of 4
DC's, total of 15,000 user accounts, but only 6,000 clients.

Re: Hardware considerations for PKI by Steve

Steve
Tue Nov 07 19:19:40 CST 2006

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when you aren't using it, keep it in a safe.

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steve.riley@microsoft.com
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Re: Hardware considerations for PKI by Marlon

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Steve, I am taking your suggestion :-)
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If you can, build your offline root on some old laptop instead. Then =
when you aren't using it, keep it in a safe.

--=20
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steve.riley@microsoft.com
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com


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I am planning to use total of two physical servers for redundancy. I =
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reading there is no major prcessing power to worry about. I have =
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