RE: Exchange Server Hardware Upgrade
- From: "Tetzlaff, Ryan" <rtetzlaff@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:47:19 -0500
Debbie,
I'm no expert, but considering the number of users connecting to your exchange
server, the machine you have now sounds like overkill compared to what we have.
We have approximately 90 employees and also use OWA. Our mail server is running
Exchange 2000 and is only used for mail and as a backup domain controller.
The only problem we have with our current hardware situation is disk space.
Here's what we're running: a PIII 450 (single processor) with 512 MB ram.
However, we do have SCSI drives which I'm sure would make a slight difference
in performance. I'm usually pretty anal about checking cpu usage, and we're
constantly hovering at 4-8% usage.
I guess if you planned on using this machine for hosting files or other
applications, you'd probably want to go a heftier route.
It'd be interesting to see what others are using...
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Blackwell [mailto:DebbieBlackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:59 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange Server Hardware Upgrade
http://www.MSExchange.org/
I am in the midst of getting proposals for an replacing my Exchange server
(hardware) We run Exchange 2000 and I am having serious performance issues. I
am getting conflicting recommendations from different sources on how much power
I need. I have 60 users accessing this server and probably need to consider
another 20 users in the next 1 to 2 years for growth. We use it to access
webmail from remote sites as well as the corporate office.
We were a start-up company that has grown quickly. Because we watched costs
early on we used what would work without spending any extras. Right now I use
a PIII 933 megahertz dual processors 512 Ram with IDE drives. I have had two
consultant-types tell me that is my problem. I have one consultant type
telling me I have enough power.
I am considering moving up to a "real" server with dual 1.8 xeon processors
P4s, 2 gigs Ram, and 4 36Gig Ultra 160 SCSI Hard Drives w/ room to add more
drives. One consultant says this is overkill while 2 other consultants say
this is what I need.
Debbie Blackwell
Cachet Homes
DebbieBlackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW.CachetHomes.NET
Office 480.556.7017
Fax 480.556.7001
Cell 602.989.5625
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