Re: [IMail Forum] Imail on a Cluster

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Yeah, I would say mirror the drives at a minimum or go with RAID5. William Van Hefner wrote: 1,100 to 1,700 e-mails per day??? iMail could easily handle that on an AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED], 256MB of RAM and a single IDE drive. We handle 10x that amount of traffic with extensive antispam and antivirus filtering (three AV tests, plus MessageSniffer via MxGuard) and our resource usage % is in the single digits. Clustering??? Sounds like swatting a fly with a nuke to me. I have to imagine that there must be something else you could use the cluster for that would be more valuable. William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Szusz Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:11 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail on a Cluster We are processing between 1100 and 1700 emails a day, this may be ramping up in the near future, which is part of the reason for this move. There are no other external apps running on the servers. It would strictly run Imail server and the OS. The hardware was a system that was purchased for something else but could not handle the I/O that was necessary so we are looking to use it for some critical application to our business that will use to the full potential the cluster, otherwise a huge waste of money (and in my opinion still is,but they want to use it this way instead of using it as 2 separate servers). Thanks Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick Hayer Sent: November 28, 2005 6:16 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail on a Cluster Hi Jeff, How much email do you process a day? Do you use any external apps like Declude? I am just curious as to the load to demand so much hardware - Thanks -Nick Jeff Szusz wrote: We are going to be rebuilding our Imail server. We plan on installing it on a Compaq cluster server in active/passive mode there is a shared storage array between the 2 nodes. We will be setting it up on a Windows 2003 server (if possible, some info I have read states that clustering may need 2000 advanced server). Wondering if any one has suggestions on how to build/setup the server. Ipswitch states that it isn't supported but has said there are some users that are doing it and may be able to offer suggestions. Anything you could provide would be great! Thanks Jeff To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/