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Hi Experts,
I am looking for some information on deploying Exchange 2013 in a small business. We are also considering office 365, but have compliance concerns.
We are currently a groupwise shop and have less than 100 total /mailboxes(80G data)users and 5 remote offices.
I am not sure if a small SAN solution is a better option than purchasing 2 servers, or VM, any suggestions would be helpful.
thanks
I am looking for some information on deploying Exchange 2013 in a small business. We are also considering office 365, but have compliance concerns.
We are currently a groupwise shop and have less than 100 total /mailboxes(80G data)users and 5 remote offices.
I am not sure if a small SAN solution is a better option than purchasing 2 servers, or VM, any suggestions would be helpful.
thanks
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Hi Guys,
We currently do not have AD, but will be doing that first and may use VMware for it and was more thinking of a SAN or VSAN for vmotion. Of course if I have 2 servers for exchange that replicate we would not need to utilize virtual technology on exchange.
Our remote office's are on T1 and we need to upgrade the circuits. Office 365 was a concern security, backups, retention, but did not know of private cloud options.
We currently do not have AD, but will be doing that first and may use VMware for it and was more thinking of a SAN or VSAN for vmotion. Of course if I have 2 servers for exchange that replicate we would not need to utilize virtual technology on exchange.
Our remote office's are on T1 and we need to upgrade the circuits. Office 365 was a concern security, backups, retention, but did not know of private cloud options.
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thanks guys
Do you already have the active directory infrastructure?
As for DAG - I have DAGs on sites as low as 25 users. If you need the high availability then it is the easiest method. Most of the DAGs I deploy in the smaller sites though are for off site replication rather than local HA.
The biggest question here I see is the five remote offices. What is the connectivity like between them? Outlook/Exchange are bandwidth hogs.
While you have compliance concerns for the cloud, one option you might want to consider is a private cloud. Your own kit in a data centre. This will give you excellent connectivity for the remote sites.
There is no correct answer to this. It is one of those ask the question to five people and get six different opinions. All of them are likely to be valid, and others will agree and disagree.
Simon.