DHCP in a Cloud Enabled World by Erik Lofstrand

re: DHCP in a Cloud Enabled World by Erik Lofstrand

Chuck — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:50:51 GMT

Erik,

From your experience, would you put DHCP in a private cloud environment or keep it local to each office?

I am in the process of building a private cloud for an organization and breaking down all the regional offices and move all Microsoft services to the Private Cloud.

is it safe to move DHCP as well?

Thanks

re: DHCP in a Cloud Enabled World by Erik Lofstrand

tony r — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:38:57 GMT

At a previous job we used dhcp for 10 years with lots of remote sites (no local dhcp servers) and almost every concievable condition that people think should be unreliable with dhcp, interestingly we never experienced a problem that actually impacted production. One key issue I keep hearing is that servers should have reserved ip's I can say that 99.99% of our servers were without reservations and like I stated no issues have arisen from this fact.. DHCP in combination with DDNS (windows based) has been truely rock solid. We didn't use an IPAM also! My current job just the opposite and its so very frustrating....

re: DHCP in a Cloud Enabled World by Eric Lofstrand

Thomas W Shinder - MSFT — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:24:57 GMT

Great topic! The is the first time I'd seen an article on IPAM and cloud. Absolutely right that DHCP is a cricial infrastructure component that enables automation. Thanks! -Tom.