Hi all. I'm looking at setting up an imail implementation for 3000 users, all webmail. I asked Ipswitch tech support if there were any white papers, guidelines, or specifications for scaling but they said they've never generated that sort of information. They sent me to the forum... and so, I look to you, my peers for guidance.
Any thoughts about 3000 users? Obviously, if I'm going to do it all on a single server, I'd want to it to be as robust as is possible. I'm thinking Xeon, dual or quad processor, coupla' gigs of memory, hard drives appropriate to 3000 users at 20 megs a pop (total 60 gig). But is that the best approach? Is 3000 users too many for a single Imail server? Are there scenarios where multiple servers are used? If I did do multiple servers how would they be associated? Would I have a single Imail user database located on one server, or simply deal with multiple imail user databases separated logically by server. Would the "unlimited user" license cover multiple servers or would I have to get multiple licenses? One thing tech support did offer as advice was "don't use RAID5". This seems totally wrong to me as redundancy and throughput are the primary benefits of using RAID. Unless there's something bad about the way Imail plays with RAID5? I'm talking hardware RAID. In fact, though I can get 72 gig drives, I'm thinking it would be better to get like, multiple 36's, just for the RAID-5 multi-processing benefits. thoughts? Thanks for your help. Regards, Ed Dowdall 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/
