AD DS installation prerequisites

Before we look at installing AD DS, there are certain prerequisites that need to be fulfilled. Without these, even if we have a good design, we will not have healthy AD DS environment.

Hardware requirements

In modern infrastructures, most workloads run as virtualized environments. AD DS can also be deployed in virtualized platforms, but there are certain scenarios where physical domain controllers should be used. For AD DS 2016, the following are the minimum hardware requirements:

• 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
• 2 GB RAM
• A storage adapter that supports the PCI Express architecture (Windows Server 2016 does not support IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE for boot, data or page drives)
• 32 GB of free space
• 1 x network...