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Have had this discussion on many occasions and this 3Sharp whitepaper by Missy Koslosky would have proved very useful as an external reference point… High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering
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VMWare Podcasts – VMWAre Infrastructure 3 Podcast: Disaster Recovery (DR) for Exchange using VMWare @ http://www.vmware.com/resources/podcasts/server_consolidation.html by Scott Salyer, VMware Technical Solutions Architect Using VMWare infrastructure
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Following on from the recent announcement on CloudRecovery for DPM from IronMountain ( Backup your DPM data into the cloud…? ) the DPM blog has just announced a webcast on the subject… ( here! ) “ Iron Mountain has recently announced the availability
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What’s the guidance if you’ve got 3 data centres, you're stretching Exchange 2007 mailbox CCR nodes between two of them and the link speed and latencies are similar between all 3. Should you put the File Share Witness (FSW) in the 3rd data centre?
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Ok so this may not be a straight choice for most and an archive solution can complement Exchange for many environments, but there are some who have not yet deployed an archive solution and who can look at it as a straight choice – small mailboxes and
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So can you just use a crossover cable for private cluster communications between CCR (& SCC) nodes. Well the answer, not very surprisingly, is yes; but there are a couple of caveats… Be careful and test the cable, especially if it’s a DIY job;
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So this is the last of these blogs for the moment. This is the list of blogs that I wrote on the subject: Part 1 (Fewer Servers supporting More Mailboxes) Part 2 (Make your backups more cost effective…) Part 3 (Storage) Part 4 (Big Mailboxes) Part
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OK so I just wanted to add a few more ideas that are worth exploring.. Data Centre Consolidation The idea of saving money by deploying Exchange Servers in fewer locations is not a new one and something which many companies have explored; but Exchange
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OK so I work for Microsoft but hey it’s worth a try …consider the Edge Transport role server as a replacement to other services in the perimeter. You should only need deploy a very small number of Edge Transport servers in your environment and you may
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OK so the idea of big mailboxes has become a viable option for a lot of organisations since Exchange Server 2007 was released and now that we are seeing real examples of deployments of mailboxes of multiple GBs there is more information around to make
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Ah yes that old chestnut… SAN versus DAS – switch to DAS and save a load of money. It’s obvious right? Well I’m not sure. This is still a hot topic but the bottom line is that Exchange 2007 now gives us a lot more options about which
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The boss is tightening the purse strings and you're having trouble justifying an Exchange 2007 upgrade? One area it’s worth focusing on is backups. ..but I wouldn’t tackle backups on their own – I would tackle them in conjunction with your
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This is a smart idea… The DPM UI can be used in conjunction with Iron Mountain CloudRecovery to backup your data into the cloud. For protecting Exchange Server this means that you could use short term protection of your databases to disk via
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Let’s start with one of the obvious ones - Fewer Servers supporting More Mailboxes … OK so it’s one thing being able to say that you can support more for less but it’s another proving it. So how do you prove that you actually save money by
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To quote Technet: “The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies,
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