Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000: Create and Optimize High-Performance Exchange Messaging Systems
A hands-on guide to designing and building an Exchange-based messaging system that will grow with your enterprise.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000: Create and Optimize High-Performance Exchange Messaging Systems
Chapter 4: Technologies for Exchange 2000 Deployments
4.1 Introduction
Data networks are certainly an essential part of the overall operations of an Exchange 2000 organization, but require less attention from an Exchange 2000 standpoint than three other crucial parts. The main one is the storage technologies. The other two relate more to the actual server technology: the computing power and the physical memory appropriate for your servers. More and more we are seeing a storage-centric approach to Exchange 2000 deployment, primarily due to the compelling aspect of Exchange 2000 its ability to handle in a more manageable manner large quantities of data through the use of multiple databases per single server instances.
As you approach your deployment of Exchange 2000 and beyond, you need to freeze your vision of the technologies offered by the many vendors and make choices. These choices will always be a set of compromises, because nobody has a blank check to acquire hardware and technologies for their deployment, technologies continue to rapidly evolve. Example of choices are given in the following paragraphs.
4.1.1 Server choice
Servers come in many forms and they may have different roles in an Exchange 2000 deployment. One of the primary goals is to protect your investment so that you don't need to "touch" these servers for a determined period of time, usually 24 to 48 months, as demanded by the business units that will fund your deployment and to whom you must justify the investments required in capital acquisition and operation cost. Nonetheless, nobody can actually develop a view...
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