Everyone keeps on talking about building a bigger server...however I stopped building servers and PCs a long time ago...it is not worth it. All my servers are more than capable of running the enterprise versions so hardware is not even an issue. And really when you think about it, it might be a lot safer to create multiple databases on a server, that way if one does go down...not everyone in your organization will be without mail...however the maintenance is a different story.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ml.exchange Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox store issues If you don't want to use hard box limits, I'd build a bigger server (as far as your disk arrays are concerned) and load enterprise on it. It is simpler to manage one server than two (or more). As far as backup and recovery times, you can always run several smaller stores on the Enterprise server for keep the individual info store recover times down. Miles ------------------------------ Miles Holt, MCP Network Engineer Summit Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-303-0426 ------------------------------ "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cary, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:21 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox store issues [heur] My question was really for companies that are bumping up against the 16GB limit should they: buy 1 Enterprise or buy 2 Standard and then you get 32GB store -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:12 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox store issues What if your Sr. Management is willing to live with hard mailbox limits for all users designed to keep the store under 16gb? Do you still think that is a bad idea? We just showed them the costs involved in not only the edition upgrade, but in more disk and bigger servers for each of our sites. Once they saw that, they told us they would tell the users to stop whining about mailbox limits being hit and to clean our their boxes. (And no, that does NOT mean they can archive to PST's. Any of those found on our file shares are deleted on a regular basis.) >From an IT point of view, we don't care either way. I'll happily build bigger servers for our upcoming 2003 upgrades along with enterprise edition or I'll just as happily do the math for each location and stick in 2gb of buffer and set the hard limits for mailboxes. It comes down to how much do they want to spend for mail growth. We run a server in each of our 5 offices. They each have around 90 staff or less. Our Atlanta server is an EE server, but we used to have 130+ staff here, and different thinking on the costs and limits back then. In theory I could just build a monster box here in Atlanta, and migrate all the mailboxes here. That would save some money in the long term even over standard, but then we would be maxing out our frame wan and we would need to boost it's capacity and loose those savings right there. ------------------------------ Miles Holt, MCP Network Engineer Summit Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-303-0426 ------------------------------ "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David, Andy Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:32 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mailbox store issues I wouldn't buy Standard regardless of the cost. 16GB is way too small of a limit. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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