Amy, My logic for is like this: 1) to kick off soho type of router because its limitation to host Internet connection both performance & control. Enterperise router is available but believe it is not essential 2) ISA box is a replacement to the router, but ISA and DC must be seperated in different box for security conern If I maintain hosting internet traffic by router, obvious I can put only one server to serve as DC/ISA in one box! Anyway, thanks for your comment. Roy Tsao -----Original Message----- From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:44 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org You can still make ISA a DC while having it on its own box. You mentioned kicking out a router - I'm not exactly sure what that means but I would take it to mean that you have a piece of hardware that ISA server is going to replace. Rather than replace it I would put that router/firewall in front of ISA to take off some of load from ISA. Since you are going to run other apps on the ISA server it makes sense to reduce the traffic that is going to be hitting it. This will also gain you back some of the security compromise that you are making when you put other apps on the ISA server. Amy -----Original Message----- From: Roy Tsao [mailto:roy_tsao@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:42 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org Amy, Your suggestion "put ISA on one box, Windows 2003 with VMware and the guest servers on this box" can't fit the requirement to put ISA box join the DC, ISA box needs to be a domain memember for traffic control! Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Babinchak" <amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:25 PM Subject: [isalist] RE: An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org The VMware license cost is one additional cost, but the cost of the additional server licenses vs. SBS is still quite significant. If the main concern is to minimize physical servers and maximize security then put ISA on one box, Windows 2003 with VMware and the guest servers on this box. Amy -----Original Message----- From: Roy Tsao [mailto:roy_tsao@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:59 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org What I am trying to do is to minimized cost of taking addtional units of physical servers while both security and function shall not be compromised. For SBS, it is of course a 1st option but in our envirnoment, we need more function more than SBS, that's why I want to uprise such a solution VS SBS. As for license charge, I merely regards the Vitual server as actual one, it means we must pay for it for any server need to install, and then disgard comparision of charge with SBS. Thanks, Roy Tsao ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Babinchak" <amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:05 AM Subject: [isalist] RE: An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org I think that it is a good idea but it is a whole lot more expensive than 1 SBS Premium license at $1,450. How deep are your pockets? Is the extra cost worth it, in terms of function or security? These are the questions yet to be answered. Amy -----Original Message----- From: Roy Tsao [mailto:roy_tsao@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:49 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Cc: Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [isalist] An Alternative Solution VS SBS on one Physical Server http://www.ISAserver.org In my past post, I want to implement a more wider service Like ISA/SQL/DC etc. on one phsical server. For security Concern, so far the recommendation from ISAServer forum Is to use SBS. However we could have one more idea by utilizing Vmware GSX server like below for my network: - Host OS: Windows Server 2003 (two NICs) External NIC: any but no DG IP Internal NIC: 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 - two Guest Server (Through Vmware GSX): 1) Windows Server 2003 running as DC (one vitual NIC) IP: 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.0 (bridged to Host Internal NIC) 2) Windows Server 2003 running as ISA2K4 (one vitual NIC) IP: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 (bridged to Host Internal NIC) Network frame: Wan connection: ADSL PPOE connection through Guest Server 2) Host Server and other Lan PC's connection to Wan through Gateway 192.168.0.1 like a physical ISA2K4 Box Lan connection: Guest Server 1) as DC/DNS/DHCP server Firewall protectiont o Host Server from External NIC: enable firewall protection, close up all communication port through TCP/IP Dear Jim and other cool guys, is that a good idea suppose the host server Has engouth CPU capacity and RAM? Thanks for your suggestion in advance! 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