Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-30 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, we have similar setup like Thierry, but not so big. Only 40k users and 1,2T of used space. Only 300 concurrent POP3 and 1600 IMAP sessions. Imap is increasing continously. Due to the fact that we have a low budget we impelented the following small solution. - 2 static IMAP/POP3 Proxies

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
> On 25/03/2013 18:47, Thierry de Montaudry wrote: >> This is just my experience, it might not be the best, but with the >> (limited) budget we had, we finally came up with a solutions that can >> handle the load and got us away from SAN systems which could never >> handle the IOs for mail access.

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/28/2013 3:34 PM, Ed W wrote: > I believe a variation on that theme is also to "double" each machine > using DRBD so that machines are arranged in pairs. One can fail and the > other will take over the load. ie each pair of machines mirrors the > storage for the other. With this arrangement onl

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-28 Thread Ed W
I believe a variation on that theme is also to "double" each machine using DRBD so that machines are arranged in pairs. One can fail and the other will take over the load. ie each pair of machines mirrors the storage for the other. With this arrangement only warm failover is usually required an

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-25 Thread Thierry de Montaudry
Hi Tigran, Managing a mail system for 1M odd users, we did run for a few years on some high range SAN system (NetApp, then EMC), but were not happy with the performance, whatever double head, fibre, and so on, it just couldn't handle the IOs. I must just say that at this time, we were not using

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-25 Thread l...@airstreamcomm.net
On 3/24/13 11:12 AM, Tigran Petrosyan wrote: Hi We are going to implement the "Dovecot" for 1 million users. We are going to use more than 100T storage space. Now we examine 2 solutions NFS or GFS2 via (Fibre Channel storage). Can someone help to make decision? What kind of storage solution we ca

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/24/2013 1:45 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 24.3.2013, at 18.12, Tigran Petrosyan wrote: > >> We are going to implement the "Dovecot" for 1 million users. We are going >> to use more than 100T storage space. Now we examine 2 solutions NFS or GFS2 >> via (Fibre Channel storage). >> Can someone

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 20:12 +0400, Tigran Petrosyan wrote: > Hi > We are going to implement the "Dovecot" for 1 million users. We are going > to use more than 100T storage space. Now we examine 2 solutions NFS or GFS2 > via (Fibre Channel storage). > Can someone help to make decision? What kind of

Re: [Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 24.3.2013, at 18.12, Tigran Petrosyan wrote: > We are going to implement the "Dovecot" for 1 million users. We are going > to use more than 100T storage space. Now we examine 2 solutions NFS or GFS2 > via (Fibre Channel storage). > Can someone help to make decision? What kind of storage soluti

[Dovecot] Please help to make decision

2013-03-24 Thread Tigran Petrosyan
Hi We are going to implement the "Dovecot" for 1 million users. We are going to use more than 100T storage space. Now we examine 2 solutions NFS or GFS2 via (Fibre Channel storage). Can someone help to make decision? What kind of storage solution we can use to achieve good performance and scalabili