Half million users? Huh. NT 4x and W2K wont scale. Maybe if you get huge servers and
lots of them, then it might be possible, but also VERY costly job.
Ever consired to change your network enviroment for something better? Like Novell
Netware?
Before you buy those Dell servers go and read following pages.. interesting
information about NT and specially W2K and their "claimed" new important features...
http://www.novell.com/advantage/ms_fud.html
http://www.novell.com/advantage/nds/nds-ad-check.html
http://www.novell.com/advantage/nds/ndsv8-check.html
(p.s .. no, I'm not working on Novell .. just one satisfied customer)
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:48:24 +0100
>
>>Hi all. I need to plan servers to grow to 500k users.
>>I'm planning to use dell servers, five of them, with 1gb ram each, peering,
>>What database does i need to use ? SQL 7 ?
>
>Well, you certainly won't get 500 K users in NT registry! more like 15 K,
>but I suppose Win2K will improve that. But then you probably don't want to
>bet your company on Win2K until after SP1 or so.
>
>SQL7 or equivalent ODBC database would be the only way to handle that many
>users. One SQL backend serving several Imail server front-ends. SQL will
>also allow you to run hi-volume user accounting and radius applications on
>the same database.
>
>You will probably have to spread that many users across several NT
>machines, using Imail peering, but I recommend you contact sales or
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] to obtain their official, bet-your-company answer.
>
>and, uh, vaya con Dios, or however it goes in Portuguese. vbg
>
>Len
>
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