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PHS Microsoft Exchange Server Environment TSO BOS Applications – October 29, 2009 Mike West– Corporate Team Lead. Agenda. Current Environment Performance Issues What’s Next?. Current Environment. The Current Environment consists of: 19 Mailbox servers
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PHS Microsoft Exchange Server EnvironmentTSO BOS Applications – October 29, 2009Mike West– Corporate Team Lead
Agenda • Current Environment • Performance Issues • What’s Next?
Current Environment • The Current Environment consists of: • 19 Mailbox servers • 3 Front-End servers (Virtualized) • 3 Connection servers • 2 Public Folder servers • 1 DR server
Current Environment • The Current Environment Consists of: • Exchange 2003 (32-bit Windows 2003 Server) • Optimized SAN storage for Exchange • 70,000 plus mailboxes • 5.7 terabytes of live data (Ave of 330 GB per) • Virus scanning (multiple layers) • Connections from desktops, OWA, Blackberries, and iPhones • Tons of restore requests (both user and legal)
Performance Issues • Limit of 4000 mailboxes per mailbox server (per MS Best Practices) • Mailboxes vs. mailbox equivalents • Additional users added (NCH, Uville, NWH) • Non-Paged Pool (NPP) usage • TrendMicro ScanMail • 3 new mailbox servers – Coming Soon!!!
What’s Next? • Exchange 2010 (64-bit Windows 2008 Server) • Removes the need for clustering or 3rd party data replication • Database Availability Groups / Database-Level Failover • Backup-less Support (Log File Reply w/lag) • Message Transport Resiliency (Shadow Copy) • Online Mailbox Moves