IT guy here.

[meeee]

LOL, san disks are not cheap, the list price for the Dell PS6000 when we bought it was £22000 for basically a box with 16 1TB HDD's in. I hassen to add we only paid 11K for it in the end.

I think most people still use Tapes, LTO 4 seems to be anout the standard nowadays.

So the software you are using is part of your HP storageworks suite?

[Clutter]

*creeps quietly out of fred cos it ain't English as she is spoke

[kibbster]

Jan 14, 2013 22:37:15 GMT meeee said:

I remember the days of Arcserve, twas a good bit of software. You are running a lot on 1 box, a couple of years ago we spent about 40K on new server kit, Went with a Dell San, Dell poweredge servers and a dell powervault 24 tape autoloader etc. Its good kit but not the cheapest, I have to say however the dell mission critical support is brill. One of the HDD's went down on the San @ about 3 in the morning. When I got to work at 8:45 I already had an email from Dell to tell me, I gave them a quick call and we had a new one arrive within 3 hours.

We did the exchange upgrade from 2003 to 2010 last year, main reason was we were close to hitting the 75GB limit of the exchange DB. I did look at the office 365 option but it worked out far to expensive for 200 people so went with hosting it internally.

Meeee

Yes we ran into the 75GB limit as well.
Made my bottom squeak for a bit lol
We implimented an agressive auto archiving setup on all the local machines and did our best to remove whitespace etc.
Things are much better on the mail front now.

[Chrissie]

A really kind offer Jake #icon_thumbsup#

[meeee]

Jan 15, 2013 13:16:43 GMT kibbster said:

Jan 14, 2013 22:37:15 GMT meeee said:

I remember the days of Arcserve, twas a good bit of software. You are running a lot on 1 box, a couple of years ago we spent about 40K on new server kit, Went with a Dell San, Dell poweredge servers and a dell powervault 24 tape autoloader etc. Its good kit but not the cheapest, I have to say however the dell mission critical support is brill. One of the HDD's went down on the San @ about 3 in the morning. When I got to work at 8:45 I already had an email from Dell to tell me, I gave them a quick call and we had a new one arrive within 3 hours.

We did the exchange upgrade from 2003 to 2010 last year, main reason was we were close to hitting the 75GB limit of the exchange DB. I did look at the office 365 option but it worked out far to expensive for 200 people so went with hosting it internally.

Meeee

Yes we ran into the 75GB limit as well.
Made my bottom squeak for a bit lol
We implimented an agressive auto archiving setup on all the local machines and did our best to remove whitespace etc.
Things are much better on the mail front now.

I am sure you have probably already done this but if not, take the exchange information store offline one weekend and do an offline defrag, this compacted out by 30% or so. The other option is to upgrade to the enterprise License which will allow multiple infomation Stores.

[kibbster]

Jan 15, 2013 14:43:06 GMT meeee said:

Jan 15, 2013 13:16:43 GMT kibbster said:

Yes we ran into the 75GB limit as well.
Made my bottom squeak for a bit lol
We implimented an agressive auto archiving setup on all the local machines and did our best to remove whitespace etc.
Things are much better on the mail front now.

I am sure you have probably already done this but if not, take the exchange information store offline one weekend and do an offline defrag, this compacted out by 30% or so. The other option is to upgrade to the enterprise License which will allow multiple infomation Stores.

Defrag is a bit tricky because we are international and have sales guys using email 24/7.
Otherwise we'd have done it before local archiving.

[kibbster]

Bah, just had a UPS fail in the past few minutes.
Sigh...

Anyway, sorry for the thread hijack.


I'm going to shut up now.

[meeee]

Jan 15, 2013 15:23:53 GMT kibbster said:

Jan 15, 2013 14:43:06 GMT meeee said:

I am sure you have probably already done this but if not, take the exchange information store offline one weekend and do an offline defrag, this compacted out by 30% or so. The other option is to upgrade to the enterprise License which will allow multiple infomation Stores.

Defrag is a bit tricky because we are international and have sales guys using email 24/7.
Otherwise we'd have done it before local archiving.

Thats a shame, we did make quite a saving on the store size when we did it, our was about 70GB and took 8 hours to do so its not a massive amount of down time.