Add a primary or a secondary?

Question

The current site has one primary and one DP for about 5K clients, everything is working fine. The client wants to add another Primary SCCM server to server a remote site with roughly 1200 desktops and lower bandwidth, and the same time allow app deployment and imaging to continue if the current primary fails.

Am I better off adding a secondary or is another primary a better option? I made the client aware of the Administration overhead, my primary concern is fail over for the core task on the current primary, the client is not interested in a Passive stand by since it will not solve the remote site issue.

Answer 1

Hi,

Given your scenario, adding a Distribution Point (DP) might be a more suitable option for the following reasons:

1. Content Distribution: Ensuring that applications, updates, and OS images are available locally, reducing the load on your network bandwidth.
2. Efficiency: Speeding up deployment times for the remote site by having content readily available.
3. Resilience: Providing some level of continuity in case of network issues between the primary site and the remote site.

A single primary site can support up to 100,000 clients devices. If you need to manage more devices, you will need more than one primary site.

If you want to achieve High availability for sites and hierarchies:

Install an additional site server in passive mode for a primary site. The site server in passive mode is in addition to your existing site server in active mode. A site server in passive mode is available for immediate use, when needed.

For more information, see Site server high availability.