That's a pretty nice server. That's what I have. First off, I would look at Exchange 2003 rather than 2000. Its high availability features are MUCH MUCH better than they were in past versions.
So, what are your options? Well, Exchange doesn't mirror, so forget that. You could always go with Clustering which if we are not talking about E2K3, I wouldn't recommend either. SAN is another option. I'm not sure what your cause was for the issue this time, but one thing to remember, no matter what you use you will still have at least one point of failure, and that is the disk subsystem. So what happened anyways? -----Original Message----- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:21 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 Thanks for the reply. What I have now is: One Server - Compaq ML530 Dual CPU 2GB RAM 3 drives at 36.4 each - RAID 5 Windows 2000 Advanced Server 1000 Mailboxes Samantha -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 Could you tell us a little bit about what you have now? Like what brand of hardware, model, and your current configuration? -----Original Message----- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: High Availability Exchange 2000 Hello All. Little Background: Last week, Exchange 5.5 server went ka-poot early in the day and I was unable to recover the IS. We ended up losing 11 hours of data that was not on a backup tape. A key member of the management team has had the stance in the past that email is "best-effort". I knew that would fly until the time that messages and calendar info was lost. I was right! Where there was no money before has come lots of money to make Exchange high availability. Amazing what a little data loss can produce...huh? Anyhoo, my task now is to find information about either SANs, Clustering, Mirroring....???? Any suggestions or comments is always appreciated by you. Samantha _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
