I don't like putting Exchange on domain controllers because of the extra load and because it complicates your disaster recovery.
Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Technical Consultant hp Services "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-exchange-94760@;ls.swynk.com] On Behalf Of Petri Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange 2000 and GC Hi Folks, I have plans to create almost a big Exchange 2000 environment. And I have some open question where I need more a real life answers than MS-white papers. At first I will create own AD site for Exchange 2000, so users logons will go other sites. Also I thought to install GCs on the same servers than Exchanges are. I haven't seen any good answers we should I not to do this. Backup/recovery might be one and if I have problems with GC, but still... But if I use GCs on the same server, then I might have better performance from GC, less users and only one Exchange per GC. Maybe I need one server more to decrease user counts on one server, but it should not be so big. So I don't need so much hardware. And now it is very easy to dedicate one GC per one Exchange 2000 servers. If I use separated GC servers: MS recommends using one CPU in GC against four Exchange servers, which have one CPU. This sounds like no matter how many users we will have in Exchange servers ? If I have eight servers where are 10 users in each one. Do I still need two GC servers (assuming that servers are one CPU servers). Is here anyone who have more than ~3500 users per server which is not clustered ? May I hear any comments from you, how it really works ? How often you are rebooting your servers or unmounting databases ? Was it SLA your only argument when you planned storage groups and databases ? best regards .-Pepi-. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
