Active Directory - single server versus federated servers

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I am working on the design of a new online environment where I am going to
have multiples application server in a farm configuration. We want to use de
Active Directory as an LDAP base. This base will be used as a security
repository, with heavy access from the application servers.

Based on that scenario, I would like to identity the best approach:

1) A single server accessed for all the application servers;

2) A federated LDAP Active Directory configuration, where each AD has a copy
of the LDAP base and each AD instance is dedicated to one application server.

Besides, if anyone has worked with one of these approaches in a similar
scenario, I appreciate if you can send me details of how the solution was
implemented.

Thanks

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