So. Would WOULD a GW7 installation look like here at WWU?
From a hardware point of view, that would require three servers.
From a software point of view, that would require three additional cluster licenses for Netware.
Our Exchange environment has seven mail stores. Those stores represent the three mail quota policies we have in place. Normal, Large, and Admin. Normal and Large have two and one store, respectively, on each Exchange server. Admin is for us admin types and the very exaulted few who get Unlimited quota. Each of the Normal stores has around 900-odd users in it. The Large stores vastly less than that.
If you roll the Normal and Large stores together since GW doesn't have any sort of storage quota system, you get around 1000 users per store. Since I'm having trouble finding sizing recommendations for GW7 for users-per-POA, I'm having to fake it. I know I heard that a POA with users running in cached-mode can support 10,000 users. I also know that a large percentage of our users aren't using cached mode (Outlook, not GroupWise of course) yet, users fear change so most haven't upgraded yet.
Thanks to the new features in GW7, we'd only need one MTA. GWIA, WebAccess, and the like can coexist with users in a domain. Which is good, since that's what they're doing now in Exchange.
So we'd need to configure 4 POAs under one MTA. Each of the five services would be its own clustered service, so it could live on any of the three dedicated groupwise cluster-nodes. All five could host on one node, or not. With a 4GB RAM server, it could handle all five. Though I don't give any guarantees for speediness during User Maintenance and Reindexing during the night.
Since the MTA would be responsible for handling all inter-POA traffic, it should reside on a node with fewer POAs on it. This will take a bit of tweaking to see how it works in the environment, but isn't very hard once we get users on the system.
From a hardware point of view, that would require three servers.
From a software point of view, that would require three additional cluster licenses for Netware.
Our Exchange environment has seven mail stores. Those stores represent the three mail quota policies we have in place. Normal, Large, and Admin. Normal and Large have two and one store, respectively, on each Exchange server. Admin is for us admin types and the very exaulted few who get Unlimited quota. Each of the Normal stores has around 900-odd users in it. The Large stores vastly less than that.
If you roll the Normal and Large stores together since GW doesn't have any sort of storage quota system, you get around 1000 users per store. Since I'm having trouble finding sizing recommendations for GW7 for users-per-POA, I'm having to fake it. I know I heard that a POA with users running in cached-mode can support 10,000 users. I also know that a large percentage of our users aren't using cached mode (Outlook, not GroupWise of course) yet, users fear change so most haven't upgraded yet.
Thanks to the new features in GW7, we'd only need one MTA. GWIA, WebAccess, and the like can coexist with users in a domain. Which is good, since that's what they're doing now in Exchange.
So we'd need to configure 4 POAs under one MTA. Each of the five services would be its own clustered service, so it could live on any of the three dedicated groupwise cluster-nodes. All five could host on one node, or not. With a 4GB RAM server, it could handle all five. Though I don't give any guarantees for speediness during User Maintenance and Reindexing during the night.
Since the MTA would be responsible for handling all inter-POA traffic, it should reside on a node with fewer POAs on it. This will take a bit of tweaking to see how it works in the environment, but isn't very hard once we get users on the system.
According to a Novell employee at BS 2005, you don't want more than one POA per server. Here is a GW 6.5 best practices guide that may help:http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/9814.htmlAlso, you keep mentioning that GW doesn't have quotas. Do you mean you can't limit the space a user can have on the server? Because you can since at least 6.0, if not 5.5 and earlier...
We had GW5.5 at OldJob, and they were having a dickens of a time managing space. One of the mail admins found a way to at least automate the usage-statistics generation, and wrote a way to deliver the 'top ten' list to the relevant managers. Whereupon the manager in question would pressure the offenders to comply with policy, or get religion about archiving.As for space, I haven't stumbled across a way to perform the limiting in my trolls through the manuals. If it is there, please enlighten...
Certainly:http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/data/abacve9.html--Alex