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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
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      @Carnival-Boy I definitely could start with one (that's what I have today) and expand if needed.

      How do my users live with so little email - the reality is that they don't. One good thing about this is that email doesn't collect a lot of misc junk that will never be referenced again. If it's that important, it's saved off and put on the network - at least for the typical staff.

      Email for those users is more of a notification board - and a way to send stupid cat pictures. If a user ever came forward and said they needed more email space, a process has been put in place to do an overview of what the user is saving and if it's legitimate, they are given more space. In 6+ years of Exchange, that has never happened.

      Before that, users didn't have email access here. More and more systems are requiring unique email for password resets, etc - so we've opened email to everyone company-wise.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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        @Carnival-Boy said:

        @scottalanmiller said:

        Your other interest is cookery, or writing about cookery?

        Both. I cook and I collect cookbooks.

        Ah. I thought you collected cookery. Cooking makes more sense 🙂

        I'm sure someone collects cookery as well.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @Carnival Boy
            last edited by

            @Carnival-Boy said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            Your other interest is cookery, or writing about cookery?

            Both. I cook and I collect cookbooks.

            But do you write for the consumption of others?

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said:

              I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

              So can I - assuming I have cloud storage for files and things I use from anywhere.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                last edited by

                @Dashrender said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

                So can I - assuming I have cloud storage for files and things I use from anywhere.

                Even without that...

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  @Dashrender said:

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

                  So can I - assuming I have cloud storage for files and things I use from anywhere.

                  Even without that...

                  You then either never need any tools, or you know where you can acquire them without the need for you to store them someplace yourself.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @Dashrender said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    @Dashrender said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

                    So can I - assuming I have cloud storage for files and things I use from anywhere.

                    Even without that...

                    You then either never need any tools, or you know where you can acquire them without the need for you to store them someplace yourself.

                    I rarely need tools but I sure have never stored tools in my email.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      I lived for nearly a decade with only 100MB for email. Honestly, I could function with 200MB pretty easily.

                      So can I - assuming I have cloud storage for files and things I use from anywhere.

                      Even without that...

                      You then either never need any tools, or you know where you can acquire them without the need for you to store them someplace yourself.

                      I rarely need tools but I sure have never stored tools in my email.

                      That's an old habit of mine, long before cloud storage was a normal thing. While I do have around 1 GB of email - I'm sure I could delete 90%+ and it really wouldn't matter.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        What kind of tools do you keep in there? For tools, if they were not available online, it seems like FTP or HTTP would be good, too.

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          I was looking over the options I put into the MS worksheet. I didn't change my level 4 users from 1 GB to 200 MB. After doing so, the sheet now says I should use one DB.

                          But I still don't know what Database and Log Configuration / Server vs DB and Log Volume Design / Server is?
                          0_1459261691723_exchange1.JPG

                          At my current listed maxes
                          6 users max 10 GB
                          14 users max 5 GB
                          65 users max 200 MB
                          Max total = 143 GB

                          So I more or less know where the left side numbers are coming from, where are the right side coming from? Is the additional size for a restore LUN? The 70 or so GB isn't enough to restore the DB into, assuming it's maxed out.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            The storage design tab definitely seems antiquated as well. It does have the JBOD options that MS recommends when using DAGs, but when assuming bare metal install:
                            DB - RAID 1, two drives
                            Logs - RAID 1, two drives
                            Restore - RAID 5, three drives - WTF MS? are you really expecting me to use SSD?

                            So the design is 7 drives.

                            As for a VM situation - the worksheet doesn't really seem to have any suggestions.

                            0_1459262251928_storage1.JPG

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              It's their recommendations assuming you were cutting big time corners from 1998. I'm not kidding, that's where those recommendations come from.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                It's their recommendations assuming you were cutting big time corners from 1998. I'm not kidding, that's where those recommendations come from.

                                yeah - this tool is damn near useless!

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                                • nadnerBN
                                  nadnerB
                                  last edited by

                                  Well, you can have every user in their own database if you really wanted to. That would be horrid but you COULD do it.

                                  IMO, you seem to have a small exchange server so one database for the users is enough. If you are into it, a seperate one for the archives.

                                  I would also have these drives:

                                  • OS
                                  • mailbox database
                                  • logs
                                  • archive database (if you're doing that)

                                  I think I'm probably repeating what's already been said.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @nadnerB
                                    last edited by

                                    @nadnerB said:

                                    Well, you can have every user in their own database if you really wanted to. That would be horrid but you COULD do it.

                                    i could only do that if I bought Enterprise edition - and that would be just crazy 😛

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      The concept of splitting the database and logs is based on the antiquated thought that no one could possibly afford RAID 10 for the database and had to cut corners and get RAID 5. If you are not using RAID 5 on spinning disks, then your logs do not get split from the database. They perform better being on the same array, not two different ones.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        The concept of splitting the database and logs is based on the antiquated thought that no one could possibly afford RAID 10 for the database and had to cut corners and get RAID 5. If you are not using RAID 5 on spinning disks, then your logs do not get split from the database. They perform better being on the same array, not two different ones.

                                        So in my case, they aren't suggesting RAID 5, because I don't have a storage need? LOL - yeah this tool really is just old! and nearly useless!

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                                        • travisdh1T
                                          travisdh1 @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @Dashrender said:

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          The concept of splitting the database and logs is based on the antiquated thought that no one could possibly afford RAID 10 for the database and had to cut corners and get RAID 5. If you are not using RAID 5 on spinning disks, then your logs do not get split from the database. They perform better being on the same array, not two different ones.

                                          So in my case, they aren't suggesting RAID 5, because I don't have a storage need? LOL - yeah this tool really is just old! and nearly useless!

                                          uhm..... I'd say drop the nearly on nearly useless.

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @travisdh1
                                            last edited by

                                            @travisdh1 said:

                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            The concept of splitting the database and logs is based on the antiquated thought that no one could possibly afford RAID 10 for the database and had to cut corners and get RAID 5. If you are not using RAID 5 on spinning disks, then your logs do not get split from the database. They perform better being on the same array, not two different ones.

                                            So in my case, they aren't suggesting RAID 5, because I don't have a storage need? LOL - yeah this tool really is just old! and nearly useless!

                                            uhm..... I'd say drop the nearly on nearly useless.

                                            FTFY 😛

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