Hi, we are a small cosmetic company, 250 employers with about 150 users distributed equally across two sites. Sites are connected with ipsec vpn. Wan links are FTTH (optical fiber) 100/30 Mbps (just activated, until yesterday we had vDSL links). Currently my datacenter is only in site A (HQ site). Site B (grown over time) users connect to services through RDP with remote desktop services. Due to our ERP old architecture I cannot do withouth rds services but I'd like, for a better user experience with services like file, print and Outlook, to make users directly use their PCs. So, I was thinking at a solution like this:
Create an AD site "B"
Put in the site B rack an host with esxi on which power up a DC (not read only dc), a file and print server, a dhcp server.
create a dfs name space with my currently mapped shares (now shares are directly mapped with \\server-name\share).
setup dfsr across sites for these shares, with primary replication on site A and secondary site B.
let Outlook clients connect directly to my Exchange server located in site A: cached mode or online mode (I'm worried about link saturation...)? Now with RDS they are used to work in online mode.
RDS will remain in place to keep ERP software being used by my remote users.
Is this a suitable solution? I like simple but functional approaches. Any suggestions or recommendations?
Thank you,
Francesco.