You will need to get new hardware. We just retired a dual Pentium 166 256 Mbytes RAM, NT 4.0; sp6a with Exchange 5.5 running strictly as an OWA box. We constantly got complaints about slow response times, one minute plus from the time you entered your password to the time the OWA mailbox opened was the norm. If you are going to have a "fairly heavy" mail load, plus shared everything else, and since you're not having to pay license fees, get the money to pay for the hardware now.
Like the FRAM filter commercials said, pay now, or pay later. The pay later in this case will be lost mail, server down time due to thrashed disks, hardware incompatibility problems and peeved users that bypass the mail server all together and cobble together a "sneaker net". Just my humble opinion. John Matteson Geac Corporate ISS (404) 239 - 2981 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. -----Original Message----- From: Erick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Server capacity I am hoping that I can get some feedback on a server configuration. I have a Compaq Proliant 6500, dual PPro 200, 256 MB ram, and 7 x 4.3GB drives in RAID 5 with a hot spare. I want to set this system up as an Exchange 2000 server for about 30 local users, and another 20 via OWA. The email load will be fairly heavy, and there will be a lot of use of shared folders and calendars. I'm concerned about taking the time to set the server up, get Exchange up and running, only to find that it's running too slowly for the users to be productive. I know more is better, but this is a non-profit with a very limited budget, so I want to make sure we have what we need. Is this server going to be a serious bottleneck? Thanks, Erick _________________________________________________________________ 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]
