I’ve just inherited a mess of a network and a partial migration. The old domain was running on ancient hardware and I have to now combine 15 servers down to 7. Ideally, I wanted to keep several services separate from eachother for availability, performance and security concerns but I just can’t do that with the hardware I’ve received.
As a general rule what types of services should not go together? Is it okay to have your internal web server running your antivirus services? What about putting WINS, DNS, AD and Exch all on one box? I have one box that apparantly has HFNetcheck, SQL, SMS and some SNMP network management software running. I’m still sorting out what my predecessor has done.
Basically what services commonly go together on the same box based on performance, availability and security?
What services should never be loaded together on the same box?
