2 BES 4.1.6 servers on oldish blades w/mixture of e2k3 and e2k7 - 1756 users on one, 1757 on the other. Restarts for patches, data center or Exchange problems and try to restart every couple of months as the creeping crud builds up.
About to start planning migration to BES 5 on ESX VMs - probably with 3 servers plus BAS, Monitoring etc. ________________________________ From: "Sobey, Richard A" <r.so...@imperial.ac.uk> To: "A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc." <bes-admins@dataoutages.com> Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 8:39:21 AM Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] How often do you restart your BES Our BES is virtualised. ~260 users. Never looked back. From:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com [mailto:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com] On Behalf Of David Burns Sent: 02 July 2010 16:14 To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] How often do you restart your BES Sounds sweet…I don’t have the eggs to virtulize Exchange, but BES sounds like a possibility. David Burns Systems Administrator From:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com [mailto:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 8:10 AM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues,etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] How often do you restart your BES I should have mentioned we have about 200 users, exchange 2003,BES 5 MR 2, virtualized on ESX. Hiccups occur about twice a month. We generate a lot of logs because i think there is an issue with how Dell Message One service is set up. I don't recommend using it by the way. Hopefully BES X will work with google apps soon as well, really waiting on that to come out for a sister organization. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, David Burns <dbu...@blackangus.com> wrote: We have less than 30 BES users so only on patches and updates…oh yeah also when our APC triggers a shutdown due to a sucky power grid “Can’t fight city hall”. If you have a few hundred users, I could see moving the BES to a real server with ECC maybe 15k drives. David Burns Systems Administrator From:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com [mailto:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com] On Behalf Of Sobey, Richard A Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:10 AM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject:Re: [Bes-admins] How often do you restart your BES Used to do daily restarts. MAPI was so flaky that if a GC went down, one of the messaging agents wouldn’t reconnect properly. Restarting it fixed it, but only after I got lots of complaints. It was therefore easier to restart at 5am every day. Now though I’m only restarting for patches, and have got the Blackberry Monitoring service installed to watch for agent problems. From:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com [mailto:bes-admins-boun...@dataoutages.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Sent: 02 July 2010 15:05 To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: [Bes-admins] How often do you restart your BES other than updates and patches. I've recently had to restart twice in June to correct mail delivery issues. _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list Bes-Admins@dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins --------------------------------- Bes-Admins mailing list is sponsored by Dataoutagenews.com. http://www.dataoutagenews.com
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