There are good and bad reasons to do most anything. The # of mailboxes on a server, by itself, is not all that indicative of hardware requirements for many reasons. However, for what passes for normal requirements in my experience you have way more server than you need so it will probably perform well, all things being equal.
You need at least 2 DCs in each domain and in small environments one being an Exchange Server is not unusual. DCs in small shops don't need to be high performance boxes but I would hardware mirror the OS on each. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trevor Porter Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:49 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Question: ES2k on a DC Hello All, Two questions in one ... I know that MS discourages the use of ES2k on a domain controller. Why is this? Load? Security? Other? Are there any good articles on this? Also, does anyone have any comments on the below config: I have (and will have) well under 100 mailboxes and am planning on using a Proliant DL380 G3 with 2x2.4 Xeons, 1 GB RAM and two RAID1 36 10k drives for the OS and the logs and three RAID5 36 10k drives for the information stores. Thanks, Trevor _________________________________________________________________ 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]
