On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> They're no guidance on how to plan a multi-function server.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: >>> All of the Exchange 2010 (and IIRC 2007) sizing docs >>> talk explicitly about multi role Exchange servers... On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do they also cover how to run Domain Controller, Global Catalog, and >> MSDE on the same box? :) On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > if you feel like ... your hardware can handle it ... Well, that's my question, really. :) All the capacity planning guides for things assume the server is dedicated to the application. There's guidance on how to size Exchange, and there's guidance for how to size a DC, and guidance for how to size MS-SQL, but not much for how the performance characteristics all interact on the same box. Or, as for what I'm looking at these days, how that'll act in VMs on the same box. The guides all talk about "for every X users", where X is always greater 100 (sometimes much greater). But like many other businesses, we're not that big. But performance is still a concern, and so instead of "how many servers do I need per X users", it's a question of how to allocate resources for the small pool of users I do have. I haven't found much guidance for this sort of scenario, from Microsoft *or* VMware. They all assume I've got need for several servers and a SAN and want things like HA and hot migration. I just want to build the best server I can for my users. I'm actually working on a more detailed write-up on this, and plan on floating it here for discussion some time in the next few days. Hopefully. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
