12-03-2010 03:06 AM
Hi everybody,
I've a question about EV architecture.
My customer have an EV server for: MBA archiving for 600 mailboxes + FSA archiving dor 1 TB + Sharepoint Archiving for 350 users.
He wants to add Exchange journal archiving for 600 users. Is it necessary to add a second EV server specially for Exchange Journal Archiving?
Regards
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12-03-2010 03:15 AM
Hi Jacques,
Whats the current Enterprise Vault Servers specs? How much email is journaled a day?
Remember most archiving for Mailbox Archiving & FSA can happen at night, and Journaling will run mostly in work hours so I don't see why not :)
12-03-2010 03:14 AM
The journal task will run quite happily on the same server as other the other tasks, so you do not necessarily need another server. If you are looking at extremely large volumes of e-mail then you might want to consider it, though for the number of users you have specified it doesn't sound like that will be the case.
12-03-2010 03:15 AM
Hi Jacques,
Whats the current Enterprise Vault Servers specs? How much email is journaled a day?
Remember most archiving for Mailbox Archiving & FSA can happen at night, and Journaling will run mostly in work hours so I don't see why not :)
12-03-2010 03:57 AM
The Journal task shall work fine on the same EV server (subject to server H/W specifications).
12-03-2010 04:48 AM
Hi Jacques
It would work but as mentioned but what is the current utilization like on the EV server at the moment? Journaling is going to push the processor to probably 90 % so if the box is already battling that might be an issue. Even though the other tasks run in the evening this is something you need to think of
Another consideration is what are you going to use to search against that Journal data ? I assume Discovery Accelerator as it comes bundled nowadays with the E-discovery and that also needs to be installed somewhere
In a small environment like that but with many different EV components I would actually recommend an additional server running Journaling and DA on the same box .You can do your DA searches after hours when there is less Exchange traffic or just stop the Journal Task temporarily
12-10-2010 06:22 AM
Thanks for eveybody for these answers.
I think, I'll try to start jounaling archiving on the same EV server, and if there are some performances problems, I'll install a second one in a second time.
Kind regards