02-24-2009 10:20 PM
Hi,
We are currently running EV 7.5 with SP2 on a single Windows 2003 SP1.
We are using EV for Mailbox Archiving (Exchange 2007 Mailboxes # 3000) and Journal Archiving.
Due to to heavy load on our only EV server, we intend to add a 2nd EV Server toour Site and offload the journaling task to this new server without moving the actual journal stores.
My question is "Is this possible and if yes, how?"
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
02-25-2009 05:14 AM
I assume that your stores are on a NTFS partition on the present server
It is possable to move the task to another server and share out the stores and indexes from the first server but you may see a performance hit. It depends on the number and size of emails you are journaling
I recommend moving everything to the new server for Journaling because you get better performance by having the data on the server running the task. Also when you initiate searches you will be loading one server with all the disk IO for a search which still gives you the issue of heavy loa on the server
A complete clean split is the best way to go on this (if you ask me)
02-25-2009 07:26 AM
Delete the existing task. Create a new journal archive on the new server, create a new journal task. You're done.
This will give you multiple journal archives. The old archive will "reside" on the old server. All searches against that archive will use the resources of the old server. Any searches against the new archives will of course run against the new server.
02-25-2009 07:33 AM
02-25-2009 12:51 PM