Re: How do you deal with a lot of e-mail?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:20:02 -0700, John
<John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

justmark,
did you ever come up with a clear solution on this? I'm in the same boat and
stuck on what direction to go.
thanks,
John

"justmark" wrote:

I'm curious about how all of you deal with enormous quantities of e-mail on
your Exchange server? How do you all deal with terabytes of e-mail? Do you
use aftermarket archiving solutions? Or do you just have HUGE disk arrays to
hold it all? What about backing it all up? I'm just curious.
We have the non-enterprise Exchange version and are about to move to
enterprise. At that point, hundreds of GBs of .pst files will move into the
information store. Within a year, it will double. Probably another doubling
in another year.


Thanks!
Mark
If you're in to multi terabytes of email then yes, archiving solutions
are the way to go. EAS and Enterprise Vault are but two of many.

Never use PST files. If the information needs to be kept then it
should be kept as an integrated entity. PST files jsut split the mail
up and you get a bloated amount of mail.

Huge disk arrays are not the way to go really. There's no point just
adding FC shelf to FC shelf to yet more FC shelf. Sure, products like
Compellent will allow you to spread a LUN across multple shelf types
but get to a certain point in Terabytes and even that starts getting
too expensive and the snapshots get ugly and performance suffers.

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