One important factor to think about is restore time. How are you backing up? How long does it take to do a test DR? Are these times and numbers acceptable to you and more importantly management? That may drive how you setup your servers. I'm sure that you can find a single box out there to run the whole thing, but is this the wise way to do it. I would probably split that 65GB three ways into 3 boxes with a 20GB IS on each. At least split it in half.
-----Original Message----- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Configuration Tools Maybe I should have made myself more clear. I have one server for mailboxes. I have another that serves as the bridgehead for the site. I'm willing to split the functions (connections and mailboxes) the same way, but would like to keep all the mailboxes on one server, if at all possible. I'm currently reading Tony Redmond's book as well as a companion book by Pierre Bijaoui. They are helping, but its vapor right now, and I'm looking for something that can help translate theory into something that I can wrap my brain around. John Matteson; Exchange Manager Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards (404) 239 - 2981 Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Configuration Tools IMHO one box is certainly not enough, but 4 is probably too many. -----Original Message----- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Configuration Tools Good Afternoon to you all: I've searched the archives and have downloaded Compaq server configuration tool for use with Exchange 2000, but I seem to be futzing the configuration somehow. When I generate a configuration for what I have currently (850 users, 65 Gbyte Private information store, average mailbox is 88Mbytes, heavy users) I get back a recommended configuration of 4 servers with a total of 52 disk drives and none of the server have more than 512 Mbytes of RAM. Currently I have this all on one server (quad 400 MHZ box, 1 Gbyte of RAM) under NT 4.0 SP6a. Anyone have a suggestion on where I should look for different tools to generate up a suggested configuration for an equivalent configuration under Win2K/E2K? John Matteson; Exchange Manager Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards (404) 239 - 2981 Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
