Clustering for only 800 users? Sounds overkill. I'd look at NSI Software's Double-Take or XOSoft's WAN Sync and using these to replicate your stores to standby hardware if you are worried about servers going down. Look at moving your stores to a SAN if you are more worried about the drives themselves and not the serve hardware
800 users is nothing for a single server, why complicate things and spread it across multiple servers and sites? The more comlexity you add, the harder it is to maintain failsafes, high availability, redundancy, bap, etc. How large is large? I've got about 600 gigs worth not, not small, but LARGE. All on a single server with Double-Take replicating to standby hardware. Oh, and before you go importing large PST's back into a store, you should have users seriously look into them and determine what they truly need. And if they're keeping it simply for history and rarely every reference it, don't import it into the store. Burn them off to CD/DVD and get them off the network if you are worried about discovery concerns. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MSX Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:54 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Getting started with Exchange 2003 server clustering >From what I am seeing here, I get the feeling that people do not like clustering exchange? What I had hoped it would offer was mostly fault tolerance in the event of a server failing, and also load balancing. But perhaps I have the wrong ideas about what this will actually do. For 800 users spread between three servers in different offices, is this the kind of scenario which would warrant clustering, or are single servers fine in an organisation? We are expecting the store to be quite large (a number of large PST files out there ATM). I dont know if clustering would help with that? Please let me know any other thoughts or suggestions you might have on this topic. Regards, Luke _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
