No we are not stuck on F5 at all, we are looking at them first because of the very good relationship F5 has with Microsoft.
Cheers Ryan From: pramatow...@mediageneral.com [mailto:pramatow...@mediageneral.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 design Been running E2010 for a year now- We're getting rid of WNLB, putting four Kemp loadmaster 2200's into place, a high availability pair in each AD site Did one site yesterday, the other is planned for next week. We're ~7K mailboxes with 2 real mbx/hub and 3 virtual cas in each site. ~1400 BB's, few hundred EAS devs. Are you stuck on F5 for some reason? Not that I have any long experience with Kemp or anything but they seem to be pretty nice boxes for a very reasonable price... From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Cc: neil.hob...@microsoft.com Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 design I need to do something very similar I need to decide if we want to use hardware from F5 or use NLB for an Exchange 2010 deployment. Thank you for the helpful links. Cheers Ryan From: Neil Hobson [mailto:neil.hob...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 design In addition to what Phil said in his reply, for a good overview of the load balancing options I'd recommend reading this topic : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625247.aspx FYI, if you go down the hardware load balancer route, here's the page that lists the hardware load balancers that have completed solution testing with Exchange 2010 : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/gg176682.aspx HTH, Neil From: Laurence Bryant [mailto:l...@cem.dur.ac.uk] Sent: 13 June 2011 13:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010 design Hi Everyone, I'm a bit new to this so my apologies if I've not understood something correctly. I'm trying to plan new hardware to deploy Exchange 2010 (100 users, average mailbox size 500MB) and am looking at using two servers with CAS, HT and Mailbox roles installed on both and using DAG for high availability. I was thinking of using Windows NLB for load balancing,but have read that this can't be used with DAG (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979781.aspx). My question is, if I set up two additional servers with NLB installed and moved the CAS and HT roles to them, would this solution then provide the load balancing I'm looking for? Alternatively, would I be better off with two highly redundant servers and use one for Mailbox and one for CAS and HT? Thanks for any advice! Laurence --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist