Lab 6.1: Creating a Site Topology Plan

Lab Objectives

After completing this lab, you will be able to create a site topology plan.

About This Lab

In this lab, you will analyze portions of the existing environment at a medium-sized company to create a site topology plan.

Before You Begin

Before you begin this lab, you must be able to

• Analyze an organization's environment to define its sites
• Analyze an organization's environment to place domain controllers in sites
• Analyze an organization's environment to define its replication strategy
• Analyze an organization's environment to place global catalog servers in sites
• Analyze an organization's environment to assign operations master roles

Exercise: Creating a Site Topology Plan

In this exercise, you will analyze the existing environment at a medium-sized company to manually create a site topology plan. Review the scenario; then follow the instructions to create a site topology plan.

Scenario

Your design team is planning the Active Directory infrastructure for Fabrikam, Inc., a Japanese retailer of silk fabrics. Fabrikam, Inc., has three regional offices, located in Osaka, Tokyo, and Nagoya. The Nagoya location also serves as the company headquarters. There are 150 retail stores across Japan aligned under each regional office. There are five distribution centers, located in Sapporo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Kyoto, and Fukuoka.

Your design team has created a network architecture diagram for Fabrikam, Inc., shown in Figure 6.12. Domain locations have also been included on the diagram. Each location has a high-speed backbone that connects a set of 10—100 Kbps LANs.

Figure 6.12 Network architecture diagram for Fabrikam, Inc.

Exercise Questions

Follow the instructions below to create a site topology plan.

1. Begin your site topology diagram by indicating the sites needed for Fabrikam, Inc. Explain your reasoning for defining each site.
   
   
   
2. Indicate the domain controllers needed for Fabrikam, Inc., on your site topology diagram. Explain your reasoning for placing each domain controller as you did.
   
   
   
3. Indicate the site links needed for Fabrikam, Inc., on your site topology diagram. Name each site link by using the first two letters of each connected site name. Indicate the site link configurations for each site link in the table below.
   
   

   Site link	Transport	Cost	Frequency	Availability
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4. Indicate the location of global catalog servers and operations masters for Fabrikam, Inc., on your site topology diagram. Explain your reasoning for placing each global catalog server and operations master.
   
   
   

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