[windows2000] Re: SQL Server 2000 on an ISA server
- From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:30:58 -0800
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Rod Falanga wrote:
| I'm looking for opinions. I've got a new server, which I intend to
use to replace our ISA server. It will have Windows 2003 Server on it.
It is a pretty beefy machine; lots of memory, lots of disk space. The
guy who is configuring it for me wants to put SQL Server 2000 onto it as
well. I've been to one or two regional TechNet meetings that Microsoft
puts on and their recommendation is to not put much onto an ISA server
that is playing the part of the DMZ. Perhaps I should not have ordered
a server with so much resources, but I did, and my parent company is
very strongly suggesting that we put other things onto this server, like
SQL Server. And certainly we are a pretty small shop. My network has
just 20 internal users with maybe 100 external users to either dial in,
or connect via VPN and terminal services. Our SQL Server databases all
told, probably come to something like 0.6 GB.
|
| So, my question to you is this. Should I keep SQL Server off of it?
Or given our relatively low demand (I am sure we have much less business
than most of you), go ahead and put SQL Server onto it?
It's not the load that's the issue, it's the security implications. The
database does _not_ belong on the same box as the firewall, no ifs,
ands, or buts about it. For a shop of that size, you should be able to
offload either the firewall or the database onto a workstation class
machine with few problems. I'd stand pretty firm on this issue if I was
you, it's a major security risk.
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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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