4GB Ram domain controller

[Guest ZFarnworth]

Hi all,

 

Simple question.

 

Is a 4GB Ram Domain Controller ok to manage 20 clients?

 

Thanks.

[Aprice]

Yes, should work fine. GUI might be a bit sluggish though.

 

Alex

[MatthewL]

More than adequate if thats all the server is been used for.

[Guest Guest]

Ours are dynamically allocated and rarely exceed 3.5gb

[Guest ZFarnworth]

It’s got a pretty fast SSD in there so GUI wise It should be fine.

 

Thanks for all your replies :-)

[chaplic]

I'm too lazy to check the sizing guidelines, but I'm pretty sure I recall deploying DCs with 8GB servicing tens of thousands of users, so I think you'll be fine. the question is though, why bother?

[localzuk]

My DCs have 2GB each... So 4GB is plenty unless you've got enormous networks.

[Jcx500]

My home dcs have 1.5gb each and they run fast tbh , Work ones have 6gb

[KK20]

1000 users here. The physical DC has 8Gb RAM but the virtual one hovers around 3Gb dynamically assigned RAM (it can go up to 8). It only increases during updating.

[Oaktech]

250 clients.

 

Physical DC is 2016, has 8GB and runs around 2-2.5gb, Virtual DC is 2012r2 core and has dynamically assigned 8GB, it hovers just over a gig most of the time.

[slugshead]

3 dc's, 8gb each, 700 users