How big are your databases now? Any retention policies? Any size limits? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brad Metzler <bmetz...@cu-portland.edu>wrote:
> A Dell NX1950, which is just a Windows server acting as an iSCSI host for > a few shelves of disks. It’s cheap and works shockingly well. The VMFS > volumes are run on RAID5 SAS 10k disk sets. Most of the rest of the storage > are in much larger and cheaper (but slower) near-line SAS arrays. > > > > Brad > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16 PM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services > > > > Hmmmm... What kind of disks are in the SAN? What kind of SAN is it? > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Brad Metzler <bmetz...@cu-portland.edu> > wrote: > > Don, > > > > We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor mail > server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the I/O being > an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The bigger issue is > we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server earlier this year and > did the requisite schema changes, however we were never able to complete > that installation successfully for reasons I do not recall. My only admin > right now is backlogged with a handful of other projects for which he is > better qualified than for Exchange, as am I which is why we are looking to > have an experienced party come in and knock out the installation for us and > ensure we don’t missing anything in the setup, routing, permissions, etc… > Thanks > > > > Brad > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM > > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services > > > > 1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it... Easy squeezy... > What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to? What connection > method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)? > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler <bmetz...@cu-portland.edu> > wrote: > > Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for employees > and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor server is the > priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and resource > mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student server has > about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next 12-18 > months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no intention of > upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the site until is it > decommissioned. > > > > And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I’m sure you have brilliant > recommendations as well, so let’s hear them! > > > > Brad > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services > > > > How many users are we talking about? > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler <bmetz...@cu-portland.edu> > wrote: > > Gentlemen, > > > > We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010 > immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or > individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and > wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a > complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are > physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment > (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual > environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront > is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for > running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has > experience with Forefront as well. > > > > What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out > here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s > list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what > they’re doing. > > > > Thanks guys. > > > > Brad > > > > > > >
