I wouldn't cluster. I don't think a cluster gives you enough added robustness to come anywhere near justifying its cost. Buy the most redundant hardware you can instead.
Your best alternative might be to physically move those servers to the central location before trying to move their mailboxes. You also might be better off migrating to Exchange 2000 before consolidating the servers unless you are willing to use a tool like Exmerge or Move Server Wizard. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miller, Robert Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Consolidating Exchange Servers All, Looking for some feedback / possible horror stories on the topic of server consolidation. We are an Exchange 5.5 shop - 80 servers in 55 Sites. Every Site has a local mailbox server. The Boss is wanting to consolidate all the Exchange servers into 3, 1 in each region (North America, Asia, Europe). It would work out to be about 2500 mailboxes per server. The network is an ATM backbone (IP cloud) - with circuit speeds ranging from 64K to 512K. I am not concerned about the load of the server, as I can definitely build a beefy cluster to handle the amount of users - I am more concerned about the latency. I dont see running Outlook locally as an option, nor do I even see running a thin client as an option, seeing the circuit speeds we have... Any thoughts / suggestions? TIA, BM _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
