Actually, in a pinch, if one of those FEs was down, the other one was able to handle things by itself fine. More RAM would have helped.
Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Fyodorov, Andrey Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003 There used to be a FE/BE document on http://www.microsoft.com/ISN I don't know if it is still there. Based on my own experience at the previous place, we ran two OWA/SMTP FEs configured with MS Windows Load Balancing. Each machine had 512MB RAM, dual 800MHz CPUs, and one 18GB RAID1 volume (I would actually prefer two RAID1 volumes in case it is an SMTP server). These two FEs were able to handle more than 2,000+ OWA users without problems + all the SMTP traffic. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: JohLex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003 Dear All, I am getting ready to upgrade an Exch 5.5 system running on NT4 to Exch 2003 on Win 2003 and am trying to decide whther or not to use a front end server. I will have approx. 100 users accessing this server via POP3/IMAP and another 30 or so via OWA. Additionally I will have another 200 mailboxes in house. If somone could point me to a web site where I could find some definitive info on this or share any personal experiences I would be very grateful. Thanks and best regards. _________________________________________________________________ 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] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ 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] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ 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] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
